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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
卷 129, 期 11, 页码 -出版社
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/5.0041288
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- U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research through the MURI [FA9550-16-1-0566]
Research on another actuation mode of nematic elastomers, deformation under pressure, reveals the material's ability to undergo significant volume changes with temperature and suggests its potential application as a pump with extremely high ejection fraction.
Nematic elastomers are programmable soft materials that display large, reversible, and predictable deformation under an external stimulus such as a change in temperature or light. While much of the work in the field has focused on actuation from flat sheets, recent advances in 3D printing and other methods of directed synthesis have motivated the study of actuation of curved shells. Snap-through buckling has been a topic of particular interest. In this work, we present theoretical calculations to motivate another mode of actuation that combines programmable soft materials as well as instabilities associated with large deformation. Specifically, we analyze the deformation of a cylindrical shell of a patterned nematic elastomer under pressure, show that it can undergo an enormous change of volume with changing temperature and suggest its application as a pump with extremely high ejection fraction.
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