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JOVE-JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
Volume -, Issue 72, Pages -Publisher
JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
DOI: 10.3791/50022
Keywords
Chemistry; Issue 72; Chemical Engineering; Biomolecular Engineering; Materials Science; Physics; Nanotechnology; Molecular Self-assembly; Electrochemistry; Folding; three dimensional; lithography; colloid; patchy particles; particles; nanoparticles; robotics; drug delivery; microfabrication; nanofabrication; nano; assembly; synthesis; reaction; origami
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- NSF [CMMI 0854881, CBET 1066898]
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys [1066898] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn
- Directorate For Engineering [1200241] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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There are numerous techniques such as photolithography, electron-beam lithography and soft-lithography that can be used to precisely pattern two dimensional (2D) structures. These technologies are mature, offer high precision and many of them can be implemented in a high-throughput manner. We leverage the advantages of planar lithography and combine them with self-folding methods(1-20) wherein physical forces derived from surface tension or residual stress, are used to curve or fold planar structures into three dimensional (3D) structures. In doing so, we make it possible to mass produce precisely patterned static and reconfigurable particles that are challenging to synthesize. In this paper, we detail visualized experimental protocols to create patterned particles, notably, (a) permanently bonded, hollow, polyhedra that self-assemble and self-seal due to the minimization of surface energy of liquefied hinges(21-23) and (b) grippers that self-fold due to residual stress powered hinges(24,25). The specific protocol described can be used to create particles with overall sizes ranging from the micrometer to the centimeter length scales. Further, arbitrary patterns can be defined on the surfaces of the particles of importance in colloidal science, electronics, optics and medicine. More generally, the concept of self-assembling mechanically rigid particles with self-sealing hinges is applicable, with some process modifications, to the creation of particles at even smaller, 100 nm length scales(22,26) and with a range of materials including metals(21), semiconductors(9) and polymers(27). With respect to residual stress powered actuation of reconfigurable grasping devices, our specific protocol utilizes chromium hinges of relevance to devices with sizes ranging from 100 mu m to 2.5 mm. However, more generally, the concept of such tether-free residual stress powered actuation can be used with alternate high-stress materials such as heteroepitaxially deposited semiconductor films(5,7) to possibly create even smaller nanoscale grasping devices.
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