Chemical energy

Synthetic homeostatic materials with chemo-mechano-chemical self-regulation

Ximin He, Michael Aizenberg, Olga Kuksenok, Lauren D. Zarzar, Ankita Shastri, Anna C. Balazs, Joanna Aizenberg

Citations: 517 • 2012

Soft Mobile Robots with On-Board Chemical Pressure Generation

Çağdaş D. Önal, Xin Chen, George M. Whitesides, Daniela Rus

Citations: 167 • 2016

Fuel-Powered Artificial Muscles

Von Howard Ebron, Zhiwei Yang, Daniel J. Seyer, Mikhail E. Kozlov, Jiyoung Oh, Hui Xie, Joselito M. Razal, Lee J. Hall, John P. Ferraris, Alan G. MacDiarmid, Ray H. Baughman

Citations: 151 • 2006

Chemically-powered swimming and diffusion in the microscopic world

Yifei Zhang, Henry Hess

Citations: 124 • 2021

Exploiting gradients in cross-link density to control the bending and self-propelled motion of active gels

Olga Kuksenok, Victor V. Yashin, Mareo Kinoshita, Takamasa Sakai, Ryo Yoshida, Anna C. Balazs

Citations: 58 • 2011

Marangoni Effect-Driven Motion of Miniature Robots and Generation of Electricity on Water

Lidong Zhang, Yihui Yuan, Xiaxin Qiu, Ting Zhang, Qing Chen, Xinhua Huang

Citations: 50 • 2017

Bioinspired Self-Resettable Hydrogel Actuators Powered by a Chemical Fuel

Hao Xu, Shengyu Bai, Guanyao Gu, Yuliang Gao, Xun Sun, Xuhong Guo, Yiming Wang

Citations: 43 • 2022

Imitating Metabolism: Energy Autonomy in Biologically Inspired Robots

Ioannis Ieropoulos, John Greenman, Chris Melhuish

Citations: 35 • 2003

Self-Oscillating Gel Actuator for Chemical Robotics

Shingo Maeda, Yusuke Hara, Ryo Yoshida, Shuji Hashimoto

Citations: 27 • 2008

Modeling Chemoresponsive Polymer Gels

Olga Kuksenok, Debabrata Deb, Pratyush Dayal, Anna C. Balazs

Citations: 24 • 2014

An untethered soft chemo-mechanical robot with composite structure and optimized control

Liyuan Chen, Weijia Chen, Yaoting Xue, Jie‐Wei Wong, Yiming Liang, Mingqi Zhang, Xiangping Chen, Xunuo Cao, Zhen Zhang, Tiefeng Li

Citations: 22 • 2019

A molecular four-wheel drive

Paul S. Weiss

Citations: 14 • 2011

Design of Autonomous Gel Actuators

Shingo Maeda, Yusuke Hara, Satoshi Nakamaru, Shuji Hashimoto

Citations: 11 • 2011

A bio-solar cell powered by sub-cellular plant photosystems

K.B. Lam, Eric A. Johnson, Liwei Lin

Citations: 11 • 2004

Direct Catalysis‐Driven Yarn Artificial Muscles: Chemically Induced Actuation

Xiaoshuang Zhou, Mingxia Li, Xiaoting Cao, Xu Dong, Shaoli Fang, Lvzhou Li, Ningyi Yuan, Jianning Ding, Ray H. Baughman

Citations: 10 • 2024

Chemical robot —Design of self-walking gel—

Shingo Maeda, Yusuke Hara, Ryo Yoshida, Shuji Hashimoto

Citations: 7 • 2007

Application of chemical reaction based pneumatic power generator to robot finger

Kyung-Rok Kim, Young June Shin, Kyung‐Soo Kim, Soohyun Kim

Citations: 5 • 2013

Computer‐Free Autonomous Navigation and Power Generation Using Electro‐Chemotaxis

Min Wang, Yue Gao, James H. Pikul

Citations: 5 • 2021

A Chemical Pump that Generates High‐Pressure Gas by Transmitting Liquid Fuel against Pressure Gradient

Junsoo Kim, Kai Luo, Zhigang Suo

Citations: 5 • 2022

Dynamic Bonding Enabled Ambient‐Driven Motors

Muqing Si, Zixiao Liu, Wei Lu, Depeng Liu, Pengju Shi, Yi Yu, Yichen Yan, Ximin He, Tao Chen

Citations: 4 • 2025