Actuators: Single‐Crystalline Vanadium Dioxide Actuators (Adv. Funct. Mater. 20/2019). (14th May 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Shi, Run; Cai, Xiangbin; Wang, Weijun; Wang, Jingwei; Kong, Dejun; Cai, Nianduo; Chen, Pengcheng; He, Pingge; Wu, Zefei; Amini, Abbas; Wang, Ning; Cheng, Chun
• Is Part Of: Advanced functional materials. Volume 29:Number 20(2019)
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• Publication Date: 2019-05-14
• Subjects: domain modulation -- metal‐insulator transitions -- stoichiometry engineering -- thermal actuators -- vanadium dioxides; Materials -- Periodicals; Chemical vapor deposition -- Periodicals; 620.11
• DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201970138
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1616-301X

Abstract

Abstract : In article number1900527, Chun Cheng and co‐workers report an interesting single‐crystalline VO2 actuator that undergoes a unique self‐bending upon temperature change. This actuator is driven by a radially asymmetric domain behavior during the metal–insulator phase transition of a stoichiometry‐engineered VO2 nanobeam. The as‐fabricated nanobeam actuators show excellent actuation performance in various aspects and provide new ideas for the further development of microelectromechanical systems and microrobotics.