Kirigami Metastructures: Liquid‐Crystal‐Elastomer‐Actuated Reconfigurable Microscale Kirigami Metastructures (Adv. Mater. 25/2021). Issue 25 (22nd June 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zhang, Mingchao; Shahsavan, Hamed; Guo, Yubing; Pena‐Francesch, Abdon; Zhang, Yingying; Sitti, Metin
• Is Part Of: Advanced materials. Volume 33:Issue 25(2021)
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• Publication Date: 2021-06-22
• Subjects: kirigami -- liquid crystal elastomers -- reconfigurable metastructures -- two‐photon polymerization -- wireless microscale devices; Materials -- Periodicals; Chemical vapor deposition -- Periodicals; 620.11
• DOI: 10.1002/adma.202170195
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0935-9648

Abstract

Abstract : Achieving wireless miniaturized reconfigurable metastructures remains a challenge due to the difficult nature of the fabrication and actuation processes at the micrometer scale. In article number 2008605, Metin Sitti and co‐workers develop an actuation platform for thermally reconfiguring micro‐metasurfaces by using uniaxially aligned liquid crystal elastomers, which serve as efficient artificial muscles to provide energy for actuation of the microscale kirigami metastructures.