Micro-scale actuators based on photo-responsive polymers
2018/29/B/ST7/00192
Keywords
Descriptors
- ST7_10: Robotyka
- ST5_12: Materiały "inteligentne" – materiały samoorganizujące się, materiały reagujące na bodźce zewnętrzne
- ST3_15: "Miękka" materia skondensowana (ciekłe kryształy, polimery,...)
Panel
ST7 – Systems and communication engineering: electronics, communication, optoelectronics
Host institution
Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Fizyki
Voivodeship: mazowieckie
Principal investigator (from the host institution)
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
- 2019-01-15
- Project end date
- 2022-07-14
- Project duration
- 42 months (the same as in the proposal)
- Project status
- Project settled
Project description
Download the project description in a pdf file
Note — project descriptions were prepared by the authors of the applications themselves and placed in the system in an unchanged form.
Equipment purchased [PL]
- Wycinarka laserowa małej mocy. Cost: 22 000 PLN
Information in the final report
Publication in academic press/journals (7)
-
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 (year: 2019, volume: 40, pages: 1900279 (1-5)), Publisher: Wiley
- Status:
- Published
- DOI:
- 10.1002/marc.201900279 – link to the publication
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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 (year: 2022, volume: 15, pages: 8214), Publisher: MDPI
- Status:
- Published
- DOI:
- 10.3390/ma15228214 – link to the publication
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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 (year: 2022, volume: 12, pages: 17598), Publisher: Nature Portfolio
- Status:
- Published
- DOI:
- 10.1038/s41598-022-22556-8 – link to the publication
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Photo-Mechanical Response Dynamics of Liquid Crystal Elastomer Linear Actuators
- Authors:
- Przemysław Grabowski,Jakub Haberko, Piotr Wasylczyk
- Academic press:
- Materials (year: 2020, volume: 13, pages: 2933 (1-10)), Publisher: MDPI
- Status:
- Published
- DOI:
- 10.3390/ma13132933 – link to the publication
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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 (year: 2020, volume: 32, pages: 2002779 (1-7)), Publisher: Wiley
- Status:
- Published
- DOI:
- 10.1002/adma.202002779 – link to the publication
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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 (year: 2021, volume: 14, pages: 6688), Publisher: MDPI
- Status:
- Published
- DOI:
- 10.3390/ma14216688 – link to the publication
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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 (year: 2020, volume: 12, pages: 8681–8686), Publisher: American Chemical Society
- Status:
- Published
- DOI:
- 10.1021/acsami.9b20309 – link to the publication