A self-oscillating gel actuator driven by ferroin

Takashi Arimura; Masaru Mukai

doi:10.1039/c4cc01613k

A self-oscillating gel actuator driven by ferroin

Chem Commun (Camb). 2014 Jun 4;50(44):5861-3. doi: 10.1039/c4cc01613k.

Authors

Takashi Arimura¹, Masaru Mukai

Affiliation

¹ Nanosystem Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), AIST Central 5-2, Tsukuba 305-8565, Japan. takashi-arimura@aist.go.jp.

PMID: 24740701
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc01613k

Abstract

In the wake of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction catalyzed by ferroin, the swelling-deswelling oscillating soft actuator exhibits 7 min period of self-oscillation for the first time.