Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Chemists made magnetically powered robots able to move faster with a clever design trick. They created a flexible film that has little pockets of magnetic powder in it, instead of mixing the powder into the polymer evenly. Then they showed off the potential of this new type of device in a variety of animal-like robot designs.
Paper DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5c14850
#chemistry #science #robots #magnets
Reporting in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, “Microstructure-Enhanced Magnetic-Driven Soft Actuator with High Force and Large Deformation.”
Read the paper: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.5c14850
(Corresponding authors: Hongmiao Tian, Ph.D., and Yi Lyu, Ph.D.)
Video credits:
Written and produced by Anne Hylden
Edited and animated by Janali Thompson
Hosted by Anne Hylden
Series produced by Vangie Koonce, Anne Hylden, Andrew Sobey, and Jefferson Beck with assistance from Elaine Seward and Kerri Jansen
Executive produced by Matthew Radcliff
Research videos by Huimin Zhu, Tianxiang Lan, Bo Sun, Qi Chen, and Yawen Shao
Additional soft robot footage from Oh et al. 2024: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.3c19613
Sound effects: Soundsnap
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Chemists made magnetically powered robots able to move faster with a clever design trick. They created a flexible film that has little pockets of magnetic powder in it, instead of mixing the powder into the polymer evenly. Then they showed off the potential of this new type of device in a variety of animal-like robot designs.
Paper DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5c14850
#chemistry #science #robots #magnets
Reporting in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, “Microstructure-Enhanced Magnetic-Driven Soft Actuator with High Force and Large Deformation.”
Read the paper: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.5c14850
(Corresponding authors: Hongmiao Tian, Ph.D., and Yi Lyu, Ph.D.)
Video credits:
Written and produced by Anne Hylden
Edited and animated by Janali Thompson
Hosted by Anne Hylden
Series produced by Vangie Koonce, Anne Hylden, Andrew Sobey, and Jefferson Beck with assistance from Elaine Seward and Kerri Jansen
Executive produced by Matthew Radcliff
Research videos by Huimin Zhu, Tianxiang Lan, Bo Sun, Qi Chen, and Yawen Shao
Additional soft robot footage from Oh et al. 2024: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.3c19613
Sound effects: Soundsnap
Produced by the American Chemical Society (ACS), one of the world’s largest scientific societies. ACS is a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related information and research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences.
Join the #AmericanChemicalSociety! bit.ly/Join_ACS
