Zofia Dziekan
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Zofia Dziekan has a total of 9 co-authors. Here are the top co-authors by number of shared publications:
- Anna Kudzia
Photonic Nanostructure Facility, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
1 shared publication - Bartosz Fabjanowicz
Photonic Nanostructure Facility, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
1 shared publication - Klaudia Dradrach
Photonic Nanostructure Facility, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
1 shared publication - Magdalena Podgórska
Photonic Nanostructure Facility, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
1 shared publication - Michał Zmyślony
Photonic Nanostructure Facility, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
1 shared publication - Mikołaj Rogóż
Faculty of Physics Photonic Nanostructure Facility University of Warsaw Pasteura 5 02-093 Warsaw Poland
1 shared publication
Latest Publications
- Open Access
From Light-Powered Motors, to Micro-Grippers, to Crawling Caterpillars, Snails and Beyond—Light-Responsive Oriented Polymers in Action
“How would you build a robot, the size of a bacteria, powered by light, that would swim towards the light source, escape from it, or could be controlled by means of different light colors, intensities or polarizations?” This was the question that Professor Diederik Wiersma asked PW on a sunny spring day in 2012, when they first met at LENS—the European Laboratory of Nonlinear Spectroscopy—in Sesto Fiorentino, just outside Florence in northern Italy. It was not just a vague question, as Prof. Wiersma, then the LENS director and leader of one of its research groups, already had an idea (and an ERC grant) about how to actually make such micro-robots, using a class of light-responsive oriented polymers, liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs), combined with the most advanced fabrication technique—two-photon 3D laser photolithography. Indeed, over the next few years, the LCE technology, successfully married with the so-called direct laser writing at LENS, resulted in a 60 micrometer long walker developed in Prof. Wiersma’s group (as, surprisingly, walking at that stage proved to be easier than swimming). After completing his post-doc at LENS, PW returned to his home Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, and started experimenting with LCE, both in micrometer and millimeter scales, in his newly established Photonic Nanostructure Facility. This paper is a review of how the ideas of using light-powered soft actuators in micromechanics and micro-robotics have been evolving in Warsaw over the last decade and what the outcomes have been so far.
Open AccessFrom Light-Powered Motors, to Micro-Grippers, to Crawling Caterpillars, Snails and Beyond—Light-Responsive Oriented Polymers in Action
“How would you build a robot, the size of a bacteria, powered by light, that would swim towards the light source, escape from it, or could be controlled by means of different light colors, intensities or polarizations?” This was the question that Professor Diederik Wiersma asked PW on a sunny spring day in 2012, when they first met at LENS—the European Laboratory of Nonlinear Spectroscopy—in Sesto Fiorentino, just outside Florence in northern Italy. It was not just a vague question, as Prof. Wiersma, then the LENS director and leader of one of its research groups, already had an idea (and an ERC grant) about how to actually make such micro-robots, using a class of light-responsive oriented polymers, liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs), combined with the most advanced fabrication technique—two-photon 3D laser photolithography. Indeed, over the next few years, the LCE technology, successfully married with the so-called direct laser writing at LENS, resulted in a 60 micrometer long walker developed in Prof. Wiersma’s group (as, surprisingly, walking at that stage proved to be easier than swimming). After completing his post-doc at LENS, PW returned to his home Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, and started experimenting with LCE, both in micrometer and millimeter scales, in his newly established Photonic Nanostructure Facility. This paper is a review of how the ideas of using light-powered soft actuators in micromechanics and micro-robotics have been evolving in Warsaw over the last decade and what the outcomes have been so far.