Recent progress in 4D printing of stimuli-responsive polymeric materials

Ma, Suqian; Zhang, Yunpeng; Wang, Meng; Liang, Yunhong; Ren, Lei; Ren, Luquan

doi:10.1007/s11431-019-1443-1

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“…With the advancing technology, 4D printing is believed to promote the rapid manufacturing of products with good quality and real usability if it is able to realize an integrative creation of an intelligent and autonomous process to eliminate the need for post-printing treatment. 275,278 6.2.…”

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Recent advances in 3D printing of nanocellulose: structure, preparation, and application prospects

2021

Nanoscale Adv.

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Section: Environmental Applicationmentioning

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Recent advances in 3D printing of nanocellulose: structure, preparation, and application prospects

2021

Nanoscale Adv.

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“…The technology to build the components for such a compliant multilayer system is partially available today. Currently, self-healing foils (Hönes et al, 2017 ), flexible sensors, and electronic circuits (Lu and Kim, 2014 ; Majidi, 2018 ; Kumar et al, 2019 ), solar batteries (Zhong et al, 2017 ), and, as shown above, smart actuators can be produced using, for example, multiphoton lithography (Malinauskas et al, 2009 ; Vaezi et al, 2013 ; Meza et al, 2014 , 2015 ), wafer technology (Kim et al, 2012 ; Segev-Bar and Haick, 2013 ), spray coating (Kent et al, 2020 ), and 3D and 4D printing (Kumar et al, 2019 ; Ma et al, 2019 ). Nevertheless, one challenge that remains open is the combination of all these components into one multi-materials system.…”

Section: Envisioning a True Avft As An Inspiration For Living Adaptivmentioning

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Artificial Venus Flytraps: A Research Review and Outlook on Their Importance for Novel Bioinspired Materials Systems

2020

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Bioinspired and biomimetic soft machines rely on functions and working principles that have been abstracted from biology but that have evolved over 3.5 billion years. So far, few examples from the huge pool of natural models have been examined and transferred to technical applications. Like living organisms, subsequent generations of soft machines will autonomously respond, sense, and adapt to the environment. Plants as concept generators remain relatively unexplored in biomimetic approaches to robotics and related technologies, despite being able to grow, and continuously adapt in response to environmental stimuli. In this research review, we highlight recent developments in plant-inspired soft machine systems based on movement principles. We focus on inspirations taken from fast active movements in the carnivorous Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) and compare current developments in artificial Venus flytraps with their biological role model. The advantages and disadvantages of current systems are also analyzed and discussed, and a new state-of-the-art autonomous system is derived. Incorporation of the basic structural and functional principles of the Venus flytrap into novel autonomous applications in the field of robotics not only will inspire further plant-inspired biomimetic developments but might also advance contemporary plant-inspired robots, leading to fully autonomous systems utilizing bioinspired working concepts.

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“…Unlike typical SMPs, 4D-printed materials can show a triple shape-memory effect. These triple shape-memory polymers possess two distinct temporary networks, which allows them to memorize an additional temporary shape [ 63 , 64 , 66 ]. The fundamental principle of 4D printing is to directly combine the structural design of the shape change to the material components and 3D printing processes.…”

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Shape-Memory Polymeric Artificial Muscles: Mechanisms, Applications and Challenges

Chen

Rehman

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Molecules

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Shape-memory materials are smart materials that can remember an original shape and return to their unique state from a deformed secondary shape in the presence of an appropriate stimulus. This property allows these materials to be used as shape-memory artificial muscles, which form a subclass of artificial muscles. The shape-memory artificial muscles are fabricated from shape-memory polymers (SMPs) by twist insertion, shape fixation via Tm or Tg, or by liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs). The prepared SMP artificial muscles can be used in a wide range of applications, from biomimetic and soft robotics to actuators, because they can be operated without sophisticated linkage design and can achieve complex final shapes. Recently, significant achievements have been made in fabrication, modelling, and manipulation of SMP-based artificial muscles. This paper presents a review of the recent progress in shape-memory polymer-based artificial muscles. Here we focus on the mechanisms of SMPs, applications of SMPs as artificial muscles, and the challenges they face concerning actuation. While shape-memory behavior has been demonstrated in several stimulated environments, our focus is on thermal-, photo-, and electrical-actuated SMP artificial muscles.

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Recent progress in 4D printing of stimuli-responsive polymeric materials

Cited by 71 publications

References 97 publications

Recent advances in 3D printing of nanocellulose: structure, preparation, and application prospects

Recent advances in 3D printing of nanocellulose: structure, preparation, and application prospects

Artificial Venus Flytraps: A Research Review and Outlook on Their Importance for Novel Bioinspired Materials Systems

Shape-Memory Polymeric Artificial Muscles: Mechanisms, Applications and Challenges

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