Mechanically-guided 3D assembly for architected flexible electronics

R Bo, S Xu, Y Yang, Y Zhang - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Architected flexible electronic devices with rationally designed 3D geometries have found
essential applications in biology, medicine, therapeutics, sensing/imaging, energy, robotics …

Active materials for functional origami

S Leanza, S Wu, X Sun, HJ Qi, RR Zhao - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In recent decades, origami has been explored to aid in the design of engineering structures.
These structures span multiple scales and have been demonstrated to be used toward …

Coaxially printed magnetic mechanical electrical hybrid structures with actuation and sensing functionalities

Y Zhang, C Pan, P Liu, L Peng, Z Liu, Y Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Soft electromagnetic devices have great potential in soft robotics and biomedical
applications. However, existing soft-magneto-electrical devices would have limited hybrid …

Soft shape-programmable surfaces by fast electromagnetic actuation of liquid metal networks

X Ni, H Luan, JT Kim, SI Rogge, Y Bai, JW Kwak… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Low modulus materials that can shape-morph into different three-dimensional (3D)
configurations in response to external stimuli have wide-ranging applications in …

A dynamically reprogrammable surface with self-evolving shape morphing

Y Bai, H Wang, Y Xue, Y Pan, JT Kim, X Ni, TL Liu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Dynamic shape-morphing soft materials systems are ubiquitous in living organisms; they are
also of rapidly increasing relevance to emerging technologies in soft machines,–, flexible …

Mechanical Fourier transform for programmable metamaterials

X Lin, F Pan, Y Ma, Y Wei, K Yang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Proactively programming materials toward target nonlinear mechanical behaviors is crucial
to realize customizable functions for advanced devices and systems, which arouses …

Multiple equilibrium states of a curved-sided hexagram: Part II—Transitions between states

L Lu, J Dai, S Leanza, JW Hutchinson… - Journal of the Mechanics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Curved-sided hexagrams with multiple equilibrium states have great potential in
engineering applications such as foldable architectures, deployable aerospace structures …

Multistable origami honeycomb

Y Li, F Pan, X Lin, K Yang, Y Ren, W Yang… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Increasing energy and space utilization efficiency is crucial for lightweight shape-
reconfigurable materials/structures that require tunable functions and multiple applications …

Easy snap-folding of hexagonal ring origami by geometric modifications

L Lu, S Leanza, J Dai, X Sun, RR Zhao - … of the Mechanics and Physics of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hexagonal ring origami is a type of foldable structure that has impressive packing abilities
and can be tessellated into two-dimensional or three-dimensional surfaces without any gap …

Recent progress in three-dimensional flexible physical sensors

F Zhang, T Jin, Z Xue, Y Zhang - International Journal of Smart and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Three-dimensional (3D) functional systems are of rapidly growing interest over
the past decade, from the perspective of both the fundamental and applied research. In …