Title:
Smart magnetic soft materials to develop artificial muscles and therapeutic robots
By:
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M)
Published:
Phys.org, 6 May 2021
From the article:
Developing a new generation of artificial muscles and soft nanorobots for drug delivery are some of the long-term goals of 4D-BIOMAP, an ERC research project being undertaken by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M).This project develops cross-cutting bio-magneto-mechanical methodologies to stimulate and control biological processes such as cell migration and proliferation, the organism's electrophysiological response, and the origin and development of soft tissue pathologies.
Also see
D. Garcia-Gonzalez et al. Influence of elastomeric matrix and particle volume fraction on the mechanical response of magneto-active polymers, Composites Part B: Engineering (2021).