Weizheng Cheng, Wanli Zhang, Jinran Tao, Feiyu Zheng, Ben Chu, Ruitong Wang, Cheng Fang, Lei Huai, Peng Tao, Chengyi Song, Wen Shang, Benwei Fu, Tao Deng
The octopus, as one of the most famous celebrities in bionics, has provided various inspirations for camouflage materials, soft-bodied robots, and flexible grabbers. The miniaturization of such structures will help the development of microrobots, microdelivery of drugs, and surface coating. With the lack of relevant effective preparation approaches, however, the generation of such octopus-like structures with a size of ∼1 μm or below is challenging. Here, we develop an approach based on laser-microdroplet interaction for generating an octopus-like structure with a size of ∼1 μm...
March 7, 2024: ACS Nano