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Micro-scale actuators based on photo-responsive polymers

2018/29/B/ST7/00192

Keywords:

liquid crystal elastomers actuators micro-robotics

Descriptors:

  • ST7_10: Hardware implementation of algorithms
  • ST5_12: Methods of nanomaterials/materials synthesis
  • ST3_15: Statistical physics of condensed matter, phase transitions, noise and fluctuations, etc.

Panel:

ST7 - Systems and communication engineering: electronics, communication, optoelectronics

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Fizyki

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr hab. Piotr Wasylczyk 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 4

Call: OPUS 15 - announced on 2018-03-15

Amount awarded: 1 094 400 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2019-01-15

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2022-07-14

Project duration:: 42 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Wycinarka laserowa małej mocy (22 000 PLN)

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (7)
  1. Photo-Mechanical Response Dynamics of Liquid Crystal Elastomer Linear Actuators
    Authors:
    Przemysław Grabowski,Jakub Haberko, Piotr Wasylczyk
    Academic press:
    Materials (rok: 2020, tom: 13, strony: 2933 (1-10)), Wydawca: MDPI
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3390/ma13132933 - link to the publication
  2. Traveling Wave Rotary Micromotor Based on a Photomechanical Response in Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks
    Authors:
    Klaudia Dradrach, Mikołaj Rogóż, Przemysław Grabowski, Chen Xuan, Rafał Węgłowski, Jolanta Konieczkowska, Ewa Schab-Balcerzak, Wiktor Piecek, and Piotr Wasylczyk
    Academic press:
    ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (rok: 2020, tom: 12, strony: 8681–8686), Wydawca: American Chemical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1021/acsami.9b20309 - link to the publication
  3. A Millimeter‐Scale Snail Robot Based on a Light‐Powered Liquid Crystal Elastomer Continuous Actuator
    Authors:
    Mikołaj Rogóż, Klaudia Dradrach, Chen Xuan, Piotr Wasylczyk
    Academic press:
    Macromolecular Rapid Communications (rok: 2019, tom: 40, strony: 1900279 (1-5)), Wydawca: Wiley
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1002/marc.201900279 - link to the publication
  4. Automated photo-aligned liquid crystal elastomer film fabrication with a low-tech, home-built robotic workstation
    Authors:
    Przemysław Grabowski, Bartosz Fabjanowicz, Magdalena Podgórska, Mikołaj Rogóż, Piotr Wasylczyk
    Academic press:
    Scientific Reports (rok: 2022, tom: 12, strony: 17598), Wydawca: Nature Portfolio
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1038/s41598-022-22556-8 - link to the publication
  5. From Light-Powered Motors, to Micro-Grippers, to Crawling Caterpillars, Snails and Beyond—Light-Responsive Oriented Polymers in Action
    Authors:
    Mikołaj Rogóż, Zofia Dziekan, Klaudia Dradrach, Michał Zmyślony, Paweł Nałęcz-Jawecki, Przemysław Grabowski, Bartosz Fabjanowicz, Magdalena Podgórska, Anna Kudzia, Piotr Wasylczyk
    Academic press:
    Materials (rok: 2022, tom: 15, strony: 8214), Wydawca: MDPI
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3390/ma15228214 - link to the publication
  6. Light-Driven Linear Inchworm Motor Based on Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators Fabricated with Rubbing Overwriting
    Authors:
    Mikołaj Rogóż, Jakub Haberko, Piotr Wasylczyk
    Academic press:
    Materials (rok: 2021, tom: 14, strony: 6688), Wydawca: MDPI
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3390/ma14216688 - link to the publication
  7. Optical Pliers: Micrometer‐Scale, Light‐Driven Tools Grown on Optical Fibers
    Authors:
    Michał Zmyślony, Klaudia Dradrach, Jakub Haberko, Paweł Nałęcz‐Jawecki, Mikołaj Rogóż, Piotr Wasylczyk
    Academic press:
    Advanced Materials (rok: 2020, tom: 32, strony: 2002779 (1-7)), Wydawca: Wiley
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1002/adma.202002779 - link to the publication

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