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2D Mechanical Metamaterials with Widely Tunable Unusual Modes of Thermal Expansion
Author(s) -
Ni Xiaoyue,
Guo Xiaogang,
Li Jiahong,
Huang Yonggang,
Zhang Yihui,
Rogers John A.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201905405
Subject(s) - metamaterial , thermal expansion , materials science , isotropy , negative thermal expansion , thermal , fabrication , anisotropy , shearing (physics) , composite material , optics , optoelectronics , physics , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , meteorology
Most natural materials expand uniformly in all directions upon heating. Artificial, engineered systems offer opportunities to tune thermal expansion properties in interesting ways. Previous reports exploit diverse design principles and fabrication techniques to achieve a negative or ultralow coefficient of thermal expansion, but very few demonstrate tunability over different behaviors. This work presents a collection of 2D material structures that exploit bimaterial serpentine lattices with micrometer feature sizes as the basis of a mechanical metamaterials system capable of supporting positive/negative, isotropic/anisotropic, and homogeneous/heterogeneous thermal expansion properties, with additional features in unusual shearing, bending, and gradient modes of thermal expansion. Control over the thermal expansion tensor achieved in this way provides a continuum‐mechanics platform for advanced strain‐field engineering, including examples of 2D metamaterials that transform into 3D surfaces upon heating. Integrated electrical and optical sources of thermal actuation provide capabilities for reversible shape reconfiguration with response times of less than 1 s, as the basis of dynamically responsive metamaterials.