Bioinspired Microorigami by Self‐Folding Polymer Films - Ionov - 2013 - Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics - Wiley Online Library

Use the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more. Share a link Investigation of self-folding thin films, which mimic natural mechanisms of movement and form complex 3D structures, is a novel and very promising research direction. This manuscript summarizes recent advances in the development and application of biomimetic self-folding polymer films. Nature offers enormous arsenal of ideas for the design of novel materials with superior properties. For example, evolution led to development of highly sophisticated and efficient movement mechanisms of plants, which allow their rotation to sun, growth, and dissemination of seeds.1 Contrary to animals where a macroscopic movement is provided by nanoscale movement of motor proteins,2 motion in plants is provided by microscopic swelling of cells1 (Figure 1). In different schemes, relatively slow swelling/shrinking results in either slow shape changes such as elongation, contraction, be

Use the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more. Share a link Investigation of self-folding thin films, which mimic natural mechanisms of movement and form complex 3D structures, is a novel and very promising research direction. This manuscript summarizes recent advances in the development and application of biomimetic self-folding polymer films. Nature offers enormous arsenal of ideas for the design of novel materials with superior properties. For example, evolution led to development of highly sophisticated and efficient movement m