Macromolecular Rapid Communications, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown
Published: March 5, 2025
Chemically powered colloidal motors are self-propelled tiny machines capable of converting chemical energy into mechanical work or kinetic energy. A wide variety organic inorganic substrates selectively utilized as consumable fuels that would allow the creation a gradient concentration via catalytic reactions for driving controllable transport in various complex liquid environments, unlocking potential chemically large range applications. Recently, combinations synthetic chemistry and nanotechnology have been exploited to design construct degradable polymer-fueled artificial whose propulsion relies on rapid degradation stimuli-responsive polymers with labile units nanostructured smart systems under activation physical stimuli. This review highlights most recent advances by polymer fuels. It explores general fabrication approaches asymmetric morphologies powering mechanisms toward motion media biological microenvironments. The distinct application performance developed so far is reviewed. future perspective development also proposed.
Language: Английский