A Fabrication Strategy for Reconfigurable Millimeter-Scale Metamaterials

Hayley D. McClintock; Neel Doshi; Agustin Iniguez-Rabago; James C. Weaver; Noah T. Jafferis; Kaushik Jayaram; Robert J. Wood; Johannes T.B. Overvelde

doi:10.1002/adfm.202103428

A Fabrication Strategy for Reconfigurable Millimeter-Scale Metamaterials

Hayley D. McClintock
, Neel Doshi
, Agustin Iniguez-Rabago
, James C. Weaver
, Noah T. Jafferis
, Kaushik Jayaram
, Robert J. Wood
, Johannes T.B. Overvelde (Corresponding author)

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Abstract

Rather than depending on material composition to primarily dictate performance metrics, metamaterials can leverage geometry to achieve specific properties of interest. For example, reconfigurable metamaterials have enabled programmable shape transformations, tunable mechanical properties, and energy absorption. While several methods exist to fabricate such structures, they often place severe restrictions on manufacturing materials, or require significant manual assembly. Moreover, these arrays are typically composed of unit cells that are either macro-scale or micro-scale in dimension. Here, the fabrication gap is bridged, and laminate manufacturing is used to develop a method for designing reconfigurable metamaterials at the millimeter-scale, that is compatible with a wide range of materials, and that requires minimal manual assembly. In addition to showing the versatility of this fabrication method, how the use of laminate manufacturing affects the behavior of these multi-component arrays is also characterized. To this end, a numerical model that captures the deformations exhibited by the structures is developed, and an analytic model that predicts the strain of the structure under compressive stress is built. Overall, this approach can be leveraged to develop millimeter-scale metamaterials for applications that require reconfigurable materials, such as in the design of tunable acoustics, photonic waveguides, and electromagnetic devices.

Original language	English
Article number	2103428
Number of pages	13
Journal	Advanced Functional Materials
Volume	31
Issue number	46
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202103428
Publication status	Published - 10 Nov 2021

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H.D.M., N.D., and A.I.-R. contributed equally to this?work. This work is part of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and was performed at the research institute AMOLF. It is part of the research program Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Veni from NWO with project number 15868 (NWO). This research was also partially supported by an appointment to the Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, administered by Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education through an interagency agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Finally, this research was also funded in part by the NASA Space Technology Research?Fellowship.

Funding Information:
This work is part of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and was performed at the research institute AMOLF. It is part of the research program Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Veni from NWO with project number 15868 (NWO). This research was also partially supported by an appointment to the Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, administered by Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education through an interagency agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Finally, this research was also funded in part by the NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship.

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This work is part of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and was performed at the research institute AMOLF. It is part of the research program Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Veni from NWO with project number 15868 (NWO). This research was also partially supported by an appointment to the Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, administered by Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education through an interagency agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Finally, this research was also funded in part by the NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship. H.D.M., N.D., and A.I.-R. contributed equally to this work. This work is part of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and was performed at the research institute AMOLF. It is part of the research program Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Veni from NWO with project number 15868 (NWO). This research was also partially supported by an appointment to the Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, administered by Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education through an interagency agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Finally, this research was also funded in part by the NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship.

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flat-foldable
metamaterials
reconfigurable

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