Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : October 30, 2018 - November 01, 2018
This study presents a stimuli-responsive gel-based gripper that can be wirelessly manipulated using infrared (IR) light. We fabricated IR-responsive gel (pNIPAM-SWCNT gel) by uniformly dispersed single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) that efficiently absorb IR light and generates heat. We confirmed that pNIPAM-SWCNT gel has IR-responsiveness by IR irradiation experiments. By using photomasks, we successfully fabricated a gel gripper that has gripping motion. We confirmed driving speed of the gel grippers became faster with increasing the UV irradiation time for the gel grippers' formation. We believe that our gel gripper could be applied to a remote controlled manipulator in vivo, and could contribute to the development of low-invasive treatment.
