Abstract
Most natural materials expand uniformly in all directions upon heating. Artificial, engineered systems offer opportunities to tune thermal expansion properties in interesting ways. Previous reports exploit diverse design principles and fabrication techniques to achieve a negative or ultralow coefficient of thermal expansion, but very few demonstrate tunability over different behaviors. This work presents a collection of 2D material structures that exploit bimaterial serpentine lattices with micrometer feature sizes as the basis of a mechanical metamaterials system capable of supporting positive/negative, isotropic/anisotropic, and homogeneous/heterogeneous thermal expansion properties, with additional features in unusual shearing, bending, and gradient modes of thermal expansion. Control over the thermal expansion tensor achieved in this way provides a continuum-mechanics platform for advanced strain-field engineering, including examples of 2D metamaterials that transform into 3D surfaces upon heating. Integrated electrical and optical sources of thermal actuation provide capabilities for reversible shape reconfiguration with response times of less than 1 s, as the basis of dynamically responsive metamaterials.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 1905405 |
Journal | Advanced Materials |
Volume | 31 |
Issue number | 48 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 1 2019 |
Funding
X.N. and X.G. contributed equally to this work. X.N. and J.A.R. acknowledge support from a ARO MURI program. Y.Z. acknowledges support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11672152 and 11722217), the Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology and the State Key Laboratory of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (No. DMETKF2019005). X.G. acknowledges support from National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11702155). Y.H. acknowledges support from the NSF (Grant No. CMMI1635443).
Keywords
- bimaterial lattices
- programmable metamaterials
- strain-field engineering
- tunable thermal properties
- unusual thermal expansion
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Materials Science
- Mechanics of Materials
- Mechanical Engineering