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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
卷 2, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/srep00857
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- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Science and Technology Center (STC)
- Emergent Behaviors in Integrated Cellular Systems (EBICS) [CBET-0939511]
- Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) [W81XWH0810701]
The quest to 'forward-engineer' and fabricate biological machines remains a grand challenge. Towards this end, we have fabricated locomotive bio-bots'' from hydrogels and cardiomyocytes using a 3D printer. The multi-material bio-bot consisted of a 'biological bimorph' cantilever structure as the actuator to power the bio-bot, and a base structure to define the asymmetric shape for locomotion. The cantilever structure was seeded with a sheet of contractile cardiomyocytes. We evaluated the locomotive mechanisms of several designs of bio-bots by changing the cantilever thickness. The bio-bot that demonstrated the most efficient mechanism of locomotion maximized the use of contractile forces for overcoming friction of the supporting leg, while preventing backward movement of the actuating leg upon relaxation. The maximum recorded velocity of the bio-bot was similar to 236 mu m s(-1), with an average displacement per power stroke of similar to 354 mu m and average beating frequency of similar to 1.5 Hz.
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