Cell based microactuator with controlled roughness of thin film

Author

Inoue, Y. ; Ikuta, K.

Author_Institution

Res. Center for Adv. Sci. & Technol., Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2015

fDate

21-25 June 2015

Firstpage

1699

Lastpage

1702

Abstract

We succeeded higher adhesion force between cells and base materials. Hybrid actuators were composed of both artificial material and biological driving source. In this report, we focused on surface roughness of the materials and revised energy transmission on the hybrid actuators to increase generative force. We revealed that controlled rough surface made higher efficiency than flat surface. A 3.2mm/min swimming robot was succeeded by this method and cell viability was maintained.

Keywords

adhesion; bioMEMS; biocontrol; biotechnology; cellular biophysics; microactuators; microrobots; surface roughness; thin films; artificial material surface roughness; biological driving source; cell based microactuator; cell viability; cell-base material adhesion force; controlled rough surface efficiency; flat surface efficiency; generative force; hybrid actuator composition; hybrid actuator energy transmission; swimming robot; thin film roughness control; Actuators; Force; Muscles; Rough surfaces; Surface discharges; Surface roughness; Surface treatment; bio-MEMS; micro machine; muscle cell machine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (TRANSDUCERS), 2015 Transducers - 2015 18th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Anchorage, AK

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TRANSDUCERS.2015.7181271

Filename

7181271