Femtosecond laser programmed artificial musculoskeletal systems

Zhuo-Chen Ma; Yong-Lai Zhang; Bing Han; Xin-Yu Hu; Chun-He Li; Qi-Dai Chen; Hong-Bo Sun

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-18117-0

Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Femtosecond laser programmed artificial musculoskeletal systems

Zhuo-Chen Ma,
Yong-Lai Zhang,
Bing Han,
Xin-Yu Hu,
Chun-He Li,
Qi-Dai Chen,
Hong-Bo Sun

Affiliations

Zhuo-Chen Ma: State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University
Yong-Lai Zhang: State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University
Bing Han: State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University
Xin-Yu Hu: State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University
Chun-He Li: State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University
Qi-Dai Chen: State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University
Hong-Bo Sun: State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18117-0
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Musculoskeletal systems are recognized as a model for designing robust yet flexible microbots but the development of artificial musculoskeletal systems at nanoscale currently remains challenging. Here the authors report a laser programmed artificial musculoskeletal systems for prototyping 3D microbots, using relatively stiff SU-8 as the skeleton and pH-responsive proteins as the smart muscle.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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