Compliant rolling-contact architected materials for shape reconfigurability

Lucas A. Shaw; Samira Chizari; Matthew Dotson; Yuanping Song; Jonathan B. Hopkins

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-07073-5

Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Compliant rolling-contact architected materials for shape reconfigurability

Lucas A. Shaw,
Samira Chizari,
Matthew Dotson,
Yuanping Song,
Jonathan B. Hopkins

Affiliations

Lucas A. Shaw: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
Samira Chizari: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
Matthew Dotson: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
Yuanping Song: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
Jonathan B. Hopkins: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07073-5
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The authors introduce a compliant rolling-contact architected material as a class of shape reconfigurable mechanical metamaterial. They also devise an approach that combines two photon stereolithography and scanning holographic optical tweezers, which allows them to fabricate these architected materials on the microscale.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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