Advanced Functional Materials, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Фев. 11, 2025

Abstract Miniature swimmers hold considerable potential for precision tasks in the confined environments, yet challenges persist with a simple, sustained, and controllable actuation their large‐scale applications real‐world scenarios. Marangoni‐propelled miniature (MPMSs), leveraging surface‐tension‐gradient‐driven interfacial flows, emerg as promising solution due to simple implementation scalable operation. The Marangoni effect, characterized by flow caused surface tension gradients, offers propulsion mechanism object movement at liquid surfaces. Leveraging this MPMSs have attracted great interest all over world. In regard, review provides an overview of latest advancement design application MPMSs, highlighting synergy various responsive materials structural engineering enable on‐demand gradients sustained MPMSs. First, it systematically introduces different mechanisms generation gradient actuate these swimmers. Subsequently, elaborately discusses preparation specialized designs employed while elucidating correlation between swimmer strategies. Furthermore, practical across scenarios are presented briefly. Finally, remaining along possible solutions presented.

Язык: Английский