Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Programming temporal morphing of self-actuated shells

  • Ruslan Guseinov,
  • Connor McMahan,
  • Jesús Pérez,
  • Chiara Daraio,
  • Bernd Bickel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14015-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Shape-morphing materials from initially flat to curved surfaces don’t tend to account for the rates of shape transformation. Here, the authors develop an algorithm for design and fabrication of plates that morph in water taking the desired 3D shape with deformation rates specified across the surface.