Using origami design principles to fold reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials
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- 8 August 2014
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 345 (6197), 647-650
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1252876
Abstract
Folding robots and metamaterials: The same principles used to make origami art can make self-assembling robots and tunable metamaterials—artificial materials engineered to have properties that may not be found in nature (see the Perspective by You). Felton et al. made complex self-folding robots from flat templates. Such robots could potentially be sent through a collapsed building or tunnels and then assemble themselves autonomously into their final functional form. Silverberg et al. created a mechanical metamaterial that was folded into a tessellated pattern of unit cells. These cells reversibly switched between soft and stiff states, causing large, controllable changes to the way the material responded to being squashed. Science , this issue p. 644 , p. 647 ; see also p. 623Keywords
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