{"id":163259,"date":"2023-05-02T21:23:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T02:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/self-folding-origami-machines-powered-by-chemical-reactions"},"modified":"2023-05-02T21:23:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T02:23:59","slug":"self-folding-origami-machines-powered-by-chemical-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/self-folding-origami-machines-powered-by-chemical-reactions","title":{"rendered":"Self-folding origami machines powered by chemical reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dpf0XbHuRfA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A Cornell-led collaboration harnessed chemical reactions to make microscale origami machines self-fold\u2014freeing them from the liquids in which they usually function, so they can operate in dry environments and at room temperature.<\/p>\n<p>The approach could one day lead to the creation of a new fleet of tiny autonomous devices that can rapidly respond to their <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+environment\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical environment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s paper, \u201cGas-Phase Microactuation Using Kinetically Controlled Surface States of Ultrathin Catalytic Sheets,\u201d published May 1 in <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i>. The paper\u2019s co-lead authors are Nanqi Bao, Ph.D. \u201822, and former postdoctoral researcher Qingkun Liu, Ph.D. \u201822.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Cornell-led collaboration harnessed chemical reactions to make microscale origami machines self-fold\u2014freeing them from the liquids in which they usually function, so they can operate in dry environments and at room temperature. The approach could one day lead to the creation of a new fleet of tiny autonomous devices that can rapidly respond to their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}