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Candybots: CANDYBOTS: A New Generation of 3D‐Printed Sugar‐Based Transient Small‐Scale Robots (Adv. Mater. 52/2020)

Simone Gervasoni, Anastasia Terzopoulou, Carlos Franco, Andrea Veciana, Norman Pedrini, Jan T. Burri, Carmela De Marco, Erdem Siringil, Xiangzhong Chen, Bradley J. Nelson, Josep Puigmartí‐Luis, Salvador Pané

Year
2020
Citations
8
Access
Open access

Abstract

Have a CANDYBOT! Sugars are among the main sources of energy, and essential building blocks for all forms of life. In article number 2005652, Xiang-Zhong Chen, Josep Puigmartí-Luis, Salvador Pané, and co-workers report the development of sugar-based architectures via 3D printing. Because of their inherent degradability and biocompatibility characteristics, these structures have the potential to be applied in transient small-scale robots.

Keywords

SugarMaterials scienceBiocompatibilityScale (ratio)RobotTransient (computer programming)NanotechnologyPolymer scienceArtificial intelligenceComputer science

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