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Active Polymeric Materials For 3d Shaping And Sensing, Adebola Oyefusi
Active Polymeric Materials For 3d Shaping And Sensing, Adebola Oyefusi
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Part I: Reprogrammable Chemical 3D Shaping for Origami, Kirigami, and Reconfigurable Molding
Origami- and kirigami-based design principles have recently received strong interest from the scientific and engineering communities because they offer fresh approaches to engineering of structural hierarchy and adaptive functions in materials, which could lead to many promising applications. Herein, we present a reprogrammable 3D chemical shaping strategy for creating a wide variety of stable complex origami and kirigami structures autonomously. This strategy relies on a reverse patterning method that encodes prescribed 3D geometric information as a spatial pattern of the unlocked phase (dispersed phase) in the locked phase …
Development Of Flexible Photo-Mechanoluminescent Polymeric Based Systems, Carlos Hernandez
Development Of Flexible Photo-Mechanoluminescent Polymeric Based Systems, Carlos Hernandez
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The project focuses on the creation of nanofiber systems with enhanced photo-mechanoluminescent response and high mechanical flexibility to further enhance promising optical applications. Lanthanide-Polyvinyl Di-Fluoride fiber systems were created using centrifugal spinning and characterized using SEM, FTIR, XPS, DSC, XRD, and PL. Fibers luminescence response was gotten when induced by ultraviolet light and the application of an impact force.