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Title: Three-dimensional mesostructures as high-temperature growth templates, electronic cellular scaffolds, and self-propelled microrobots

Journal Article · · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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  1. Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO (United States)
  2. Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States); Peking Univ., Beijing (China)
  3. Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China); Nanjing Univ. (China)
  4. Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
  5. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
  6. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
  7. Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States)
  8. Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China)
  9. Yonsei Univ., Seoul (Korea)
  10. Beijing Inst. of Technology (China)
  11. Peking Univ., Beijing (China)

Recent work demonstrates that processes of stress release in prestrained elastomeric substrates can guide the assembly of sophisticated 3D micro/nanostructures in advanced materials. Reported application examples include soft electronic components, tunable electromagnetic and optical devices, vibrational metrology platforms, and other unusual technologies, each enabled by uniquely engineered 3D architectures. A vast disadvantage of these systems is that the elastomeric substrates, while essential to the assembly process, can impose significant engineering constraints in terms of operating temperatures and levels of dimensional stability; they also prevent the realization of 3D structures in freestanding forms. In this work, we introduce concepts in interfacial photopolymerization, nonlinear mechanics, and physical transfer that bypass these limitations. The results enable 3D mesostructures in fully or partially freestanding forms, with additional capabilities in integration onto nearly any class of substrate, from planar, hard inorganic materials to textured, soft biological tissues, all via mechanisms quantitatively described by theoretical modeling. Illustrations of these ideas include their use in 3D structures as frameworks for templated growth of organized lamellae from AgCl–KCl eutectics and of atomic layers of WSe2from vapor-phase precursors, as open-architecture electronic scaffolds for formation of dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neural networks, and as catalyst supports for propulsive systems in 3D microswimmers with geometrically controlled dynamics. Taken together, these methodologies establish a set of enabling options in 3D micro/nanomanufacturing that lie outside of the scope of existing alternatives.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); National Basic Research Program of China; Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology; US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR); National Institute on Drug Abuse; National Science Foundation (NSF)
Grant/Contract Number:
FG02-07ER46471
OSTI ID:
1547358
Journal Information:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 114, Issue 45; ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher:
National Academy of SciencesCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 122 works
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