Active materials for functional origami

S Leanza, S Wu, X Sun, HJ Qi, RR Zhao - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In recent decades, origami has been explored to aid in the design of engineering structures.
These structures span multiple scales and have been demonstrated to be used toward …

Recent advances in 4D printing of liquid crystal elastomers

M Chen, M Gao, L Bai, H Zheng, HJ Qi… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are renowned for their large, reversible, and anisotropic
shape change in response to various external stimuli due to their lightly cross‐linked …

Direct ink writing based 4D printing of materials and their applications

X Wan, L Luo, Y Liu, J Leng - Advanced Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 4D printing has attracted academic interest in the recent years because it endows
static printed structures with dynamic properties with the change of time. The shapes …

Four-dimensional printing of liquid crystal elastomers

CP Ambulo, JJ Burroughs, JM Boothby… - … applied materials & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Three-dimensional structures capable of reversible changes in shape, ie, four-dimensional-
printed structures, may enable new generations of soft robotics, implantable medical …

[HTML][HTML] 4D printing: The development of responsive materials using 3D-printing technology

PE Antezana, S Municoy, G Ostapchuk, PN Catalano… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Additive manufacturing, widely known as 3D printing, has revolutionized the production of
biomaterials. While conventional 3D-printed structures are perceived as static, 4D printing …

4D printing: A detailed review of materials, techniques, and applications

L Joharji, RB Mishra, F Alam, S Tytov… - Microelectronic …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Four-dimensional (4D) printing has gained considerable attention since its
conception in 2013. It was made possible by interdisciplinary studies and the rapid …

Liquid crystal polymer networks: preparation, properties, and applications of films with patterned molecular alignment

D Liu, DJ Broer - Langmuir, 2014 - ACS Publications
Monolithically ordered liquid crystal polymer networks are formed by the photoinitiated
polymerization of multifunctional liquid crystal monomers. This paper describes the relevant …

Guided folding of nematic liquid crystal elastomer sheets into 3D via patterned 1D microchannels

Y ** by an actuating splay-bend strip
K Dradrach, M Zmyślony, Z Deng, A Priimagi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Despite spectacular progress in microfluidics, small-scale liquid manipulation, with few
exceptions, is still driven by external pumps and controlled by large-scale valves, increasing …