ZB 06 - Nanoelectrochemistry (W.Nogala)

Spatially Controlled CO2 Conversion Kinetics in Natural Leaves for Motion Generation

Author(s): Melvin, Ambrose A. and Goudeau, Bertrand and Nogala, Wojciech and Kuhn, Alexander
Title: Spatially Controlled CO2 Conversion Kinetics in Natural Leaves for Motion Generation
Abstract: Living systems that can spontaneously exhibit directional motion belong diverse classes such as bacteria, sperm and plankton. They have scientists in recent years to design completely artificial or mobile objects. Natural ingredients, like parts of plants, been used to elaborate miniaturized dynamic objects, which can move they are combined with other, non-natural, building blocks. Herein, report that the precise structural tailoring of natural plant leaves generating a spatially predefined and confined release of oxygen due to the conversion of carbon dioxide. This constitutes the force for generating motion, which is solely due to the of leaves by photosynthesis. The rate of gas evolution can fine-tuned by changing the light intensity and the leaf size, ultimately to control the motility of objects with dimensions ranging from the millimeter to the micrometer scale.
Pages: e202205298
Journal: ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Publisher: WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
Addres: POSTFACH 101161, 69451 WEINHEIM, GERMANY
Volume: 61
ID: WOS:000811074600001
Year: 2022
URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202205298
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202205298