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Kirigami Metastructures: Liquid‐Crystal‐Elastomer‐Actuated Reconfigurable Microscale Kirigami Metastructures (Adv. Mater. 25/2021)
Author(s) -
Zhang Mingchao,
Shahsavan Hamed,
Guo Yubing,
PenaFrancesch Abdon,
Zhang Yingying,
Sitti Metin
Publication year - 2021
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.202170195
Subject(s) - microscale chemistry , materials science , fabrication , liquid crystal , elastomer , metamaterial , nanotechnology , optoelectronics , composite material , medicine , alternative medicine , mathematics , mathematics education , pathology
Achieving wireless miniaturized reconfigurable metastructures remains a challenge due to the difficult nature of the fabrication and actuation processes at the micrometer scale. In article number 2008605, Metin Sitti and co‐workers develop an actuation platform for thermally reconfiguring micro‐metasurfaces by using uniaxially aligned liquid crystal elastomers, which serve as efficient artificial muscles to provide energy for actuation of the microscale kirigami metastructures.