Buckling and twisting of advanced materials into morphable 3D mesostructures

Journal Article · Wed Jun 19 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1901193116· OSTI ID:1527191

Zhao, Hangbo ^[1]; Li, Kan ^[2]; Han, Mengdi ^[1]; Zhu, Feng ^[3]; Vázquez-Guardado, Abraham ^[4]; Guo, Peijun ^[5]; Xie, Zhaoqian ^[6]; Park, Yoonseok ^[1]; Chen, Lin ^[7]; Wang, Xueju ^[8]; Luan, Haiwen  ^[2]; Yang, Yiyuan ^[9]; Wang, Heling ^[2]; Liang, Cunman ^[10]; Xue, Yeguang  ^[2]; Schaller, Richard D. ^[11]; Chanda, Debashis ^[12]; Huang, Yonggang ^[13]; Zhang, Yihui ^[14]; Rogers, John A. ^[15]

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1. Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208,
2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208,, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208,, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208,
3. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208,, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208,, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208,, School of Logistics Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, 430063 Wuhan, China,
4. NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32826,, CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816,
5. Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439,
6. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208,, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208,, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208,, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Dalian University of Technology, 116024 Dalian, China,
7. State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 710049 Xi’an, China,
8. Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208,, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211,
9. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208,
10. Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208,, Key Laboratory of Mechanism Theory and Equipment Design of Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, 300072 Tianjin, China,, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, 300072 Tianjin, China,
11. Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439,, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208,
12. NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32826,, CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816,, Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816,
13. Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208,, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208,, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208,, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208,
14. Center for Flexible Electronics Technology, Tsinghua University, 100084 Beijing, China,, Applied Mechanics Laboratory, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, 100084 Beijing, China,
15. Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208,, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208,, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208,, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208,, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208,

Recently developed methods in mechanically guided assembly provide deterministic access to wide-ranging classes of complex, 3D structures in high-performance functional materials, with characteristic length scales that can range from nanometers to centimeters. These processes exploit stress relaxation in prestretched elastomeric platforms to affect transformation of 2D precursors into 3D shapes by in- and out-of-plane translational displacements. This paper introduces a scheme for introducing local twisting deformations into this process, thereby providing access to 3D mesostructures that have strong, local levels of chirality and other previously inaccessible geometrical features. Here, elastomeric assembly platforms segmented into interconnected, rotatable units generate in-plane torques imposed through bonding sites at engineered locations across the 2D precursors during the process of stress relaxation. Nearly 2 dozen examples illustrate the ideas through a diverse variety of 3D structures, including those with designs inspired by the ancient arts of origami/kirigami and with layouts that can morph into different shapes. Here, a mechanically tunable, multilayered chiral 3D metamaterial configured for operation in the terahertz regime serves as an application example guided by finite-element analysis and electromagnetic modeling.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• Grant/Contract Number: AC02-06CH11357
• OSTI ID: 1527191
• Alternate ID(s): OSTI ID: 1559024
• Journal Information: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Journal Name: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Vol. 116 Journal Issue: 27; ISSN 0027-8424
• Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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