Origami structures with a critical transition to bistability arising from hidden degrees of freedom

Nature Materials

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 389-393

  Silverberg, Jesse L ^a   Na, Jun Hee ^b   Evans, Arthur A ^b   Liu, Bin ^a   Hull, Thomas C ^c   Santangelo, Christian D ^b   Lang, Robert J ^d   Hayward, Ryan C ^b   Cohen, Itai ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Robert J Lang Origami   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGELS; MECHANICS;

CUSTOMIZABLE; FOLDED SHEETS; FOLDING DYNAMICS; KINEMATIC CONSTRAINTS; MECHANICAL RESPONSE; MECHANICAL SWITCH; POTENTIAL UTILITY; TEMPERATURE RESPONSIVE POLYMERS;

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS);

BIOMATERIAL; GEL; POLYMER;

BIOMECHANICS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONFORMATION; DRUG STABILITY; GEL; MATERIALS TESTING; THERMODYNAMICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; DRUG STABILITY; GELS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; POLYMERS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84925372232     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4232     Document Type: Article

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