Journal
SMART MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES
Volume 29, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1361-665X/aba490
Keywords
shape memory composite; reversible; thermo-responsive; 3D printing; raster angle
Funding
- Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP)
- Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy of the Republic of Korea [20192010106690]
- Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT) [20192010106690] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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In this study, an efficient fabrication method to realize a reversible thermo-responsive composite (TRC) and the effect of raster angle were investigated. For the facile fabrication of reversible TRCs, polylactic acid and commercial printing paper were used to generate a polymer/paper bilayer. Using the fused deposition modeling method of three-dimensional printing, three types of TRCs were fabricated and compared depending on the printing angle condition. Above the glass transition temperature, the polymer is relaxed, allowing straightening by the constraining paper layer; subsequently, it recovers its initial shape during cooling. Because the deposited filament arrays shrank in the longitudinal direction and expanded in another direction during heating, the raster angle was considered for better actuating performance. Thus, horizontal-type TRCs exhibited a greater range of average actuating performance compared with vertical-type TRCs (up to similar to 24.7% increase in changing rate). Hence, this study supports a rapid, low-cost, and efficient fabrication method for soft robotics applications, including smart devices, grippers, and actuators.
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