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Miniature coiled artificial muscle for wireless soft medical devices

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Li, Mingtong
Tang, Yichao
Soon, Ren Hao
Dong, Bin
Hu, Wenqi

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2022

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English

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Wireless small-scale soft-bodied devices are capable of precise operation inside confined internal spaces, enabling various minimally invasive medical applications. However, such potential is constrained by the small output force and low work capacity of the current miniature soft actuators. To address this challenge, we report a small-scale soft actuator that harnesses the synergetic interactions between the coiled artificial muscle and radio frequency–magnetic heating. This wirelessly controlled actuator exhibits a large output force (~3.1 N) and high work capacity (3.5 J/g). Combining this actuator with different mechanical designs, its tensile and torsional behaviors can be engineered into different functional devices, such as a suture device, a pair of scissors, a driller, and a clamper. In addition, by assuming a spatially varying magnetization profile, a multilinked coiled muscle can have both magnetic field–induced bending and high contractile force. Such an approach could be used in various future untethered miniature medical devices.

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Science Advances

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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