Mimosa Origami: A nanostructure-enabled directional self-organization regime of materials.

ABSTRACT: One of the innate fundamentals of living systems is their ability to respond toward distinct stimuli by various self-organization behaviors. Despite extensive progress, the engineering of spontaneous motion in man-made inorganic materials still lacks the directionality and scale observed in nature. We report the directional self-organization of soft materials into three-dimensional geometries by the rapid propagation of a folding stimulus along a predetermined path. We engineer a unique Janus bilayer architecture with superior chemical and mechanical properties that enables the efficient transformation of surface energy into directional kinetic and elastic energies. This Janus bilayer can respond to pinpoint water stimuli by a rapid, several-centimeters-long self-assembly that is reminisce

SUBMITTER: Wong WSY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5566163 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature