期刊
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
卷 58, 期 13, 页码 4184-4188出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201812860
关键词
kinematic behavior; micromotors; phoretic effects; polymer brushes; thermoresponsive
资金
- National Nature Science Foundation of China [21674029, 21573053]
We report a thermoresponsive poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) brush functionalized Janus Au-Pt bimetallic micromotor capable of modulating the direction of motion with the change of the ambient temperature. The PNIPAM@Au-Pt micromotor moved along the Au-Pt direction with a speed of 8.5ms(-1) in 1.5% H2O2 at 25 degrees C (below the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of PNIPAM), whereas it changed the direction of motion (i.e., along the Pt-Au direction) and the speed decreased to 2.3ms(-1) at 35 degrees C (above LCST). Below LCST, PNIPAM brushes grafted on the Au side were hydrophilic and swelled, which permitted the electron transfer and proton diffusion on the Au side, and thus the motion is regarded as a self-electrophoretic mechanism. However, PNIPAM brushes above LCST became hydrophobic and collapsed, and thus the driving mechanism switched to the self-diffusiophoresis like that of Pt-modified Janus silica motors. These motors could reversibly change the direction of motion with the transition of the hydrophobic and hydrophilic states of the grafted PNIPAM brushes. Such a thermoresponsive polymer brush functionalization method provides a new strategy for engineering the kinematic behavior of phoretically driven micro/nanomotors.
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