Control of active polymeric filaments by chemically-powered nanomotors
arXiv:2109.12602 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.18.024051
Abstract
Active materials with distinctive nonequilibrium properties have diverse materials science applications. Active systems are common in living matter, such as the filament network in the cell that is activated by molecular motors, and in materials science as exemplified by hydrogels activated by chemical reactions. Here we describe another class of active polymeric filament systems where the filaments are activated by embedded chemically-powered nanomotors that have catalytic and noncatalytic parts. Chemical reactions on the catalytic surfaces produce forces that act on the polymeric filaments. By changing the nonequilibrium conditions these forces can be made to change sign and thereby compress or expand the filaments. The embedded motors provide both the source of activity and the means to control the filament conformational structure. As an example of control, we show that oscillatory variations of the chemical constraints yield gel-like networks that oscillate between expanded or compressed forms, much like those of hydrogels.
arXiv comment8 pages, 7 figures
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