Biomorphic structural batteries for robotics

Mingqiang Wang; Drew Vecchio; Chunyan Wang; Ahmet Emre; Xiongye Xiao; Zaixing Jiang; Paul Bogdan; Yudong Huang; Nicholas A. Kotov

doi:10.1126/scirobotics.aba1912

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Biomorphic structural batteries for robotics

View ORCID ProfileMingqiang Wang¹,²,³,⁴,⁵,
Drew Vecchio²,⁵,
Chunyan Wang¹,
View ORCID ProfileAhmet Emre²,³,⁴,⁵,
Xiongye Xiao⁶,
Zaixing Jiang¹,
Paul Bogdan⁶,
Yudong Huang¹,* and
View ORCID ProfileNicholas A. Kotov ²,³,⁴,⁵,⁷,*

¹School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, MIIT Key Laboratory of Critical Materials Technology for New Energy Conversion and Storage, State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, P. R. China.
²Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
³Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
⁴Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
⁵Biointerfaces Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
⁶Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
⁷Michigan Institute of Transnational Nanotechnology (MITRAN), Ypsilanti, MI, USA.

↵*Corresponding author. Email: huangyd{at}hit.edu.cn (Y.H.); kotov{at}umich.edu (N.A.K.)

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Science Robotics 19 Aug 2020:
Vol. 5, Issue 45, eaba1912
DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.aba1912

Mingqiang Wang

1School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, MIIT Key Laboratory of Critical Materials Technology for New Energy Conversion and Storage, State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, P. R. China.

2Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

3Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

4Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

5Biointerfaces Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

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Drew Vecchio

2Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

5Biointerfaces Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

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Chunyan Wang

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Ahmet Emre

2Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

3Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

4Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

5Biointerfaces Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

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Xiongye Xiao

6Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.

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Zaixing Jiang

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Paul Bogdan

6Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.

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Yudong Huang

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For correspondence: huangyd@hit.edu.cn kotov@umich.edu

Nicholas A. Kotov

2Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

3Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

4Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

5Biointerfaces Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

7Michigan Institute of Transnational Nanotechnology (MITRAN), Ypsilanti, MI, USA.

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