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Spatiotemporal modulation of surface texture for information encoding and object manipulation
Xiao Yang, Jay Sim, Ruike Renee Zhao
Dynamically tunable surface textures offer a powerful route to spatiotemporally regulate surface and interfacial properties, enabling emerging applications ranging from adaptive op…
Physics-aware differentiable design of magnetically actuated kirigami for shape morphing
Liwei Wang, Yilong Chang, Shuai Wu +2
Shape morphing that transforms morphologies in response to stimuli is crucial for future multifunctional systems. While kirigami holds great promise in enhancing shape-morphing, ex…
Stiffness Change for Reconfiguration of Inflated Beam Robots
Brian H. Do, Shuai Wu, Ruike Renee Zhao +1
Active control of the shape of soft robots is challenging. Despite having an infinite number of passive degrees of freedom (DOFs), soft robots typically only have a few actively co…
Multiple equilibrium states of a curved-sided hexagram: Part II-Transitions between states
Lu Lu, Jize Dai, Sophie Leanza +2
Curved-sided hexagrams with multiple equilibrium states have great potential in engineering applications such as foldable architectures, deployable aerospace structures, and shape-…
Multiple equilibrium states of a curved-sided hexagram: Part I-Stability of states
Lu Lu, Jize Dai, Sophie Leanza +2
The stability of the multiple equilibrium states of a hexagram ring with six curved sides is investigated. Each of the six segments is a rod having the same length and uniform natu…
Magneto-Mechanical Bilayer Metasurface with Global Area-Preserving Density Tunability for Acoustic Wave Regulation
Jay Sim, Shuai Wu, Jize Dai +1
Metasurfaces have extensive potential in acoustic cloaking, optical scattering, and electromagnetic antenna due to their unprecedented properties and the ability to conform to curv…
On the Elastic Stability of Folded Rings in Circular and Straight States
Sophie Leanza, Ruike Renee Zhao, John W. Hutchinson
Single-loop elastic rings can be folded into multi-loop equilibrium configurations. In this paper, the stability of several such multi-loop states which are either circular or stra…
Liquid Crystal Elastomer-Liquid Metal Composite: Ultrafast, Untethered, and Programmable Actuation by Induction Heating
Victor Maurin, Yilong Chang, Qiji Ze +2
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are a stimuli-responsive material which has been intensively studied for applications including artificial muscles, shape morphing structures, and…
Spinning-enabled Wireless Amphibious Origami Millirobot
Qiji Ze, Shuai Wu, Jize Dai +5
Wireless millimeter-scale origami robots that can locomote in narrow spaces and morph their shapes have recently been explored with great potential for biomedical applications. Exi…
Magnetic Dynamic Polymers for Modular Assembling and Reconfigurable Morphing Architectures
Xiao Kuang, Shuai Wu, Yi Jin +5
Shape morphing magnetic soft materials, composed of magnetic particles in a soft polymer matrix, can transform shapes reversibly, remotely, and rapidly, finding diverse application…
Magneto-Mechanical Metamaterials with Widely Tunable Mechanical Properties and Acoustic Bandgaps
S. Macrae Montgomery, Shuai Wu, Xiao Kuang +6
Mechanical metamaterials are architected manmade materials that allow for unique behaviors not observed in nature, making them promising candidates for a wide range of applications…
Evolutionary Algorithm Guided Voxel-Encoding Printing of Functional Hard-Magnetic Soft Active Materials
Shuai Wu, Craig M. Hamel, H. Jerry Qi +1
Hard-magnetic soft active materials (hmSAMs) have attracted a great amount of research interests due to their fast-transforming, untethered control, as well as excellent programmab…
Magnetic Shape Memory Polymers with Integrated Multifunctional Shape Manipulations
Qiji Ze, Xiao Kuang, Shuai Wu +7
Shape-programmable soft materials that exhibit integrated multifunctional shape manipulations, including reprogrammable, untethered, fast, and reversible shape transformation and l…
Symmetry-breaking Actuation Mechanism for Soft Robotics and Active Metamaterials
Shuai Wu, Qiji Ze, Rundong Zhang +4
Magnetic-responsive composites that consist of soft matrix embedded with hard-magnetic particles have recently been demonstrated as robust soft active materials for fast-transformi…