https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/05/230502132302.htm

The approach could one day lead to the creation of a new fleet of tiny autonomous devices that can rapidly respond to their chemical environment.

The group's paper, "Gas-Phase Microactuation Using Kinetically Controlled Surface States of Ultrathin Catalytic Sheets," published May 1 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper's co-lead authors are Nanqi Bao, Ph.D. '22, and former postdoctoral researcher Qingkun Liu, Ph.D. '22.