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Modeling Out-Of-Plane Actuation In Thin-Film Nematic Polymer Networks: From Chiral Ribbons To Auto-Origami Boxes Via Twist And Topology, Vianney Gimenez-Pinto, Fangfu Ye, Badel Mbanga, Jonathan Selinger, Robin Selinger
Modeling Out-Of-Plane Actuation In Thin-Film Nematic Polymer Networks: From Chiral Ribbons To Auto-Origami Boxes Via Twist And Topology, Vianney Gimenez-Pinto, Fangfu Ye, Badel Mbanga, Jonathan Selinger, Robin Selinger
Jonathan Selinger
Various experimental and theoretical studies demonstrate that complex stimulus-responsive out-of-plane distortions such as twist of different chirality, emergence of cones, simple and anticlastic bending can be engineered and pre-programmed in a liquid crystalline rubbery material given a well-controlled director microstructure. Via 3-d finite element simulation studies, we demonstrate director-encoded chiral shape actuation in thin-film nematic polymer networks under external stimulus. Furthermore, we design two complex director fields with twisted nematic domains and nematic disclinations that encode a pattern of folds for an auto-origami box. This actuator will be flat at a reference nematic state and form four well-controlled bend distortions …