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ACS MACRO LETTERS
卷 9, 期 8, 页码 1172-1177出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.0c00469
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- Office of Naval Research through the MURI on Photomechanical Materials [ONR N00014-18-1-2624]
- European Research Council [679646]
- Emil Aaltonen Foundation
- International HR Services of Tampere University
- Academy of Finland Flagship Programme (Photonics Research and Innovation) [320165]
Photoinduced shape morphing has implications in fields ranging from soft robotics to biomedical devices. Despite considerable effort in this area, it remains a challenge to design materials that can be both rapidly deployed and reconfigured into multiple different three-dimensional forms, particularly in aqueous environments. In this work, we present a simple method to program and rewrite spatial variations in swelling and, therefore, Gaussian curvature in thin sheets of hydrogels using photoswitchable supramolecular complexation of azobenzene pendent groups with dissolved alpha-cyclodextrin. We show that the extent of swelling can be programmed via the proportion of azobenzene isomers, with a 60% decrease in areal swelling from the all trans to the predominantly cis state near room temperature. The use of thin gel sheets provides fast response times in the range of a few tens of seconds, while the shape change is persistent in the absence of light thanks to the slow rate of thermal cis-trans isomerization. Finally, we demonstrate that a single gel sheet can be programmed with a first swelling pattern via spatially defined illumination with ultraviolet light, then erased with white light, and finally redeployed with a different swelling pattern.
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