Abstract
Origami/kirigami-inspired 3D assembly approaches have recently attracted attention for a variety of applications, such as advanced optoelectronic devices and biomedical sensors. The results reported here describe an approach to construct classes of multiple foldable 3D microstructures that involve deformations that typical conductive materials, such as conventional metal films, cannot tolerate. Atomically thin graphene sheets serve as folding hinges during a process of 2D to 3D conversion via a deterministic buckling process. The exceptional mechanical properties of graphene enable the controlled, geometric transformation of a 2D precursor bonded at selective sites on a prestretched elastomer into folded 3D microstructures, in a reversible manner without adverse effects on the electrical properties. Experimental and computational investigations of the folding mechanisms for such types of 3D objects reveal the underlying physics and the dependence of the process on the thickness of the graphene/supporting films that define the hinges.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 2001303 |
| Journal | Advanced Materials |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue number | 28 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 1 2020 |
Funding
S.L. and H.L. contributed equally to this work. This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (NRF‐2015R1A3A2066337). Y.Z. acknowledges the support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11722217) and the Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology. Y.H. acknowledges the support from the National Science Foundation (Grant No. CMMI1635443). J.A.R. acknowledges support from the Army Research Office through an Award No. W911NF‐17‐1‐0351.
Keywords
- 3D assembly
- compressive buckling
- foldable structures
- graphene
- origami
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Materials Science
- Mechanics of Materials
- Mechanical Engineering