Light-Powered Self-Adaptive Mesostructured Microrobots for
Simultaneous Microplastics Trapping and Fragmentation via in
situ Surface Morphing

J 2023

Light-Powered Self-Adaptive Mesostructured Microrobots for Simultaneous Microplastics Trapping and Fragmentation via in situ Surface Morphing

ULLATTIL, Sanjay Gopal and Martin PUMERA

Basic information

Original name

Light-Powered Self-Adaptive Mesostructured Microrobots for Simultaneous Microplastics Trapping and Fragmentation via in situ Surface Morphing

Authors

ULLATTIL, Sanjay Gopal and Martin PUMERA (guarantor)

Edition

SMALL, GERMANY, WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH, 2023, 1613-6810

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

21000 2.10 Nano-technology

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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URL

Impact factor

Impact factor: 13.300 in 2022

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:90242/23:00133752

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202301467

UT WoS

001004696300001

Keywords in English

TiO2; surface morphology; microrobots; microplastics; micromotors

Abstract

V originále

Microplastics, which comprise one of the omnipresent threats to human health, are diverse in shape and composition. Their negative impacts on human and ecosystem health provide ample incentive to design and execute strategies to trap and degrade diversely structured microplastics, especially from water. This work demonstrates the fabrication of single-component TiO2 superstructured microrobots to photo-trap and photo-fragment microplastics. In a single reaction, rod-like microrobots diverse in shape and with multiple trapping sites, are fabricated to exploit the asymmetry of the microrobotic system advantageous for propulsion. The microrobots work synergistically to photo-catalytically trap and fragment microplastics in water in a coordinated fashion. Hence, a microrobotic model of "unity in diversity" is demonstrated here for the phototrapping and photofragmentation of microplastics. During light irradiation and subsequent photocatalysis, the surface morphology of microrobots transformed into porous flower-like networks that trap microplastics for subsequent degradation. This reconfigurable microrobotic technology represents a significant step forward in the efforts to degrade microplastics.

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90242, large research infrastructures

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Citovat

ULLATTIL, Sanjay Gopal and Martin PUMERA. Light-Powered Self-Adaptive Mesostructured Microrobots for Simultaneous Microplastics Trapping and Fragmentation via in situ Surface Morphing. SMALL. GERMANY: WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH, 2023, vol. 19, No 38, p. 1-9. ISSN 1613-6810. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202301467.

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ULLATTIL, Sanjay Gopal and Martin PUMERA. Light-Powered Self-Adaptive Mesostructured Microrobots for Simultaneous Microplastics Trapping and Fragmentation via in situ Surface Morphing. \textit{SMALL}. GERMANY: WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH, 2023, vol.~19, No~38, p.~1-9. ISSN~1613-6810. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202301467.

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