TY - JOUR
T1 - Crystalline membrane morphology beyond polyhedra
AU - Yuan, Hang
AU - Olvera De La Cruz, Monica
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported as part of the Center for Bio-Inspired Energy Science, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences under Award No. DE-SC0000989.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 American Physical Society.
PY - 2019/7/31
Y1 - 2019/7/31
N2 - Elastic crystalline membranes exhibit a buckling transition from sphere to polyhedron. However, their morphologies are restricted to convex polyhedra and are difficult to externally control. Here we study morphological changes of closed crystalline membranes of superparamagnetic particles. The competition of magnetic dipole-dipole interactions with the elasticity of this magnetoelastic membrane leads to concave morphologies. Interestingly, as the magnetic field strength increases, the symmetry of the buckled membrane decreases from 5-fold to 3-fold, to 2-fold and, finally, to 1-fold rotational symmetry. This gives the ability to switch the membrane morphology between convex and concave shapes with specific symmetry and provides promising applications for membrane shape control in the design of actuatable microcontainers for targeted delivery systems.
AB - Elastic crystalline membranes exhibit a buckling transition from sphere to polyhedron. However, their morphologies are restricted to convex polyhedra and are difficult to externally control. Here we study morphological changes of closed crystalline membranes of superparamagnetic particles. The competition of magnetic dipole-dipole interactions with the elasticity of this magnetoelastic membrane leads to concave morphologies. Interestingly, as the magnetic field strength increases, the symmetry of the buckled membrane decreases from 5-fold to 3-fold, to 2-fold and, finally, to 1-fold rotational symmetry. This gives the ability to switch the membrane morphology between convex and concave shapes with specific symmetry and provides promising applications for membrane shape control in the design of actuatable microcontainers for targeted delivery systems.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevE.100.012610
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevE.100.012610
M3 - Article
C2 - 31499886
AN - SCOPUS:85070548274
SN - 2470-0045
VL - 100
JO - Physical Review E
JF - Physical Review E
IS - 1
M1 - 012610
ER -