Controlled Mechanical Buckling for Origami-Inspired Construction of 3D Microstructures in Advanced Materials

Journal Article · Thu Feb 25 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Advanced Functional Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201504901· OSTI ID:1466993

Yan, Zheng ^[1]; Zhang, Fan ^[2]; Wang, Jiechen ^[1]; Liu, Fei ^[2]; Guo, Xuelin ^[1]; Nan, Kewang ^[1]; Lin, Qing ^[1]; Gao, Mingye ^[1]; Xiao, Dongqing ^[1]; Shi, Yan ^[2]; Qiu, Yitao ^[3]; Luan, Haiwen ^[4]; Kim, Jung Hwan ^[1]; Wang, Yiqi ^[1]; Luo, Hongying ^[5]; Han, Mengdi ^[6]; Huang, Yonggang ^[4]; Zhang, Yihui ^[7]; Rogers, John A. ^[8]

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1. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering and Frederick Seitz Materials Research Lab.
2. Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China). Center for Mechanics and Materials, Key Lab. of Applied Mechanics (AML) and Dept. of Engineering Mechanics
3. Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China). Dept. of Automotive Engineering
4. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Center for Engineering and Health and Skin Disease Research Center
5. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Center for Engineering and Health and Skin Disease Research Center; Tongji Univ., Shanghai (China). School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics
6. Peking Univ., Beijing (China). National Key Lab. of Science and Technology on Micro/Nano Fabrication
7. Center for Mechanics and Materials, AML, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084 P. R. China
8. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Dept. of Chemistry, Dept. of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Frederick Seitz Materials Research Lab.

Origami is a topic of rapidly growing interest in both the scientific and engineering research communities due to its promising potential in a broad range of applications. Previous assembly approaches of origami structures at the micro/nanoscale are constrained by the applicable classes of materials, topologies and/or capability of control over the transformation. In this work, we introduce an approach that exploits controlled mechanical buckling for autonomic origami assembly of 3D structures across material classes from soft polymers to brittle inorganic semiconductors, and length scales from nanometers to centimeters. This approach relies on a spatial variation of thickness in the initial 2D structures as an effective strategy to produce engineered folding creases during the compressive buckling process. The elastic nature of the assembly scheme enables active, deterministic control over intermediate states in the 2D to 3D transformation in a continuous and reversible manner. Demonstrations include a broad set of 3D structures formed through unidirectional, bidirectional, and even hierarchical folding, with examples ranging from half cylindrical columns and fish scales, to cubic boxes, pyramids, starfish, paper fans, skew tooth structures, and to amusing system-level examples of soccer balls, model houses, cars, and multifloor textured buildings.

• Research Organization: Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Thousand Young Talents Program of China
• Grant/Contract Number: FG02-07ER46471; CMMI1400169; R01EB019337; DMR‐1121262; 11502129
• OSTI ID: 1466993
• Journal Information: Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 26, Issue 16; ISSN 1616-301X
• Publisher: Wiley
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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