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 …

Origami with rotational symmetry: A review on their mechanics and design

L Lu, S Leanza, RR Zhao - Applied …, 2023 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Origami has emerged as a powerful mechanism for designing functional foldable and
deployable structures. Among various origami patterns, a large class of origami exhibits …

Cold-programmed shape-morphing structures based on grayscale digital light processing 4D printing

L Yue, X Sun, L Yu, M Li, SM Montgomery… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Shape-morphing structures that can reconfigure their shape to adapt to diverse tasks are
highly desirable for intelligent machines in many interdisciplinary fields. Shape memory …

Coaxially printed magnetic mechanical electrical hybrid structures with actuation and sensing functionalities

Y Zhang, C Pan, P Liu, L Peng, Z Liu, Y Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Soft electromagnetic devices have great potential in soft robotics and biomedical
applications. However, existing soft-magneto-electrical devices would have limited hybrid …

Deep learning-accelerated designs of tunable magneto-mechanical metamaterials

C Ma, Y Chang, S Wu, RR Zhao - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Metamaterials are artificially structured materials with unusual properties, such as negative
Poisson's ratio, acoustic band gap, and energy absorption. However, metamaterials made of …

Mechanics of hard-magnetic soft materials: A review

L Lu, J Sim, RR Zhao - Mechanics of Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Hard-magnetic soft materials are a class of magnetically responsive composites obtained by
embedding hard-magnetic particles into a soft polymeric matrix. They have found …

Magneto‐Mechanical Bilayer Metamaterial with Global Area‐Preserving Density Tunability for Acoustic Wave Regulation

J Sim, S Wu, J Dai, RR Zhao - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 2D metamaterials have immense potential in acoustics, optics, and electromagnetic
applications due to their unique properties and ability to conform to curved substrates. Active …

Theory of hard magnetic soft materials to create magnetoelectricity

AH Rahmati, R Jia, K Tan, X Zhao, Q Deng, L Liu… - Journal of the …, 2023 - Elsevier
Materials that generate electrical signals upon exposure to a well-controlled stimuli are high
desirable. In that context, magnetoelectrics are unusual in the sense that the stimulus may …

Wave manipulation in intelligent metamaterials: recent progress and prospects

B Wu, W Jiang, J Jiang, Z Zhao, Y Tang… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Metamaterials (MMs), which include phononic crystals (PCs) as a particular type, exhibit
anomalous wave propagation properties through artificial design of topologies or lattice …

Magneto-mechanical metamaterials: A perspective

J Sim, RR Zhao - Journal of Applied Mechanics, 2024 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Magneto-mechanical metamaterials possess unique and tunable properties by adjusting
their shape configurations in response to an external magnetic field. Their designs and …