Self-Oscillating Soft Materials

Self-oscillating gel as novel biomimetic materials.

Stimuli-responsive polymers and their application to biomaterials have been widely studied. On the other hand, as a novel biomimetic polymer, we have been studying the polymer with an autonomous self-oscillating function by utilizing oscillating chemical reactions. So far, we succeeded in developing a novel self-oscillating polymer and gels by utilizing the oscillating reaction, called the Belo...

Novel Self-Oscillating Polymer Actuators for Soft Robot

Self-oscillating evanescent microwave probes for nondestructive evaluations of materials

The design and operation of a self-oscillating evanescent microwave probe (SO-EMP) for very high spatial resolution imaging of material nonuniformities are discussed. Composed of a microstripline resonator in a feedback loop across a 10-dB amplifier with 2.5-GHz bandwidth centered at 1.75 GHz, these oscillator probes are very compact and suitable for high-resolution imaging of materials. A wire...

Crops: a green approach toward self-assembled soft materials.

To date, a wide range of industrial materials such as solvents, fuels, synthetic fibers, and chemical products are being manufactured from petroleum resources. However, rapid depletion of fossil and petroleum resources is encouraging current and future chemists to orient their research toward designing safer chemicals, products, and processes from renewable feedstock with an increased awareness...

Chemomechanics of Self-Oscillating Gels

Biological materials such as cardiac and skin tissue exhibit the unique capacity to transduce mechanical stimuli into propagating electrical and chemical signals throughout the body. Few synthetic materials have been engineered to produce communicative chemical signals in response to mechanical input, though such synthetic material analogues could enable devices that mimic biological tissues an...