Printing, folding and assembly methods for forming 3D mesostructures in advanced materials

Rational design of reconfigurable prismatic architected materials

(2017) Johannes T. B. Overvelde et al.   NATURE

Engineered Elastomer Substrates for Guided Assembly of Complex 3D Mesostructures by Spatially Nonuniform Compressive Buckling

(2016) Kewang Nan et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Guided Formation of 3D Helical Mesostructures by Mechanical Buckling: Analytical Modeling and Experimental Validation

(2016) Yuan Liu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Controlled Mechanical Buckling for Origami-Inspired Construction of 3D Microstructures in Advanced Materials

(2016) Zheng Yan et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

3D printing of liquid metals as fugitive inks for fabrication of 3D microfluidic channels

(2016) Dishit P. Parekh et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

3D printed nervous system on a chip

(2016) Blake N. Johnson et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Patterning via self-organization and self-folding: Beyond conventional lithography

(2016) Sung Hoon Kang et al.   MRS BULLETIN

Origami MEMS and NEMS

(2016) John Rogers et al.   MRS BULLETIN

3D printed bionic nanodevices

(2016) Yong Lin Kong et al.   Nano Today

Self-assembly of graphene ribbons by spontaneous self-tearing and peeling from a substrate

(2016) James Annett et al.   NATURE

Combinatorial design of textured mechanical metamaterials

(2016) Corentin Coulais et al.   NATURE

Printing soft matter in three dimensions

(2016) Ryan L. Truby et al.   NATURE

Multiscale metallic metamaterials

(2016) Xiaoyu Zheng et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Engineered hybrid cardiac patches with multifunctional electronics for online monitoring and regulation of tissue function

(2016) Ron Feiner et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Biomimetic 4D printing

(2016) A. Sydney Gladman et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Programming curvature using origami tessellations

(2016) Levi H. Dudte et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Lightweight Mechanical Metamaterials with Tunable Negative Thermal Expansion

(2016) Qiming Wang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Single-Step Fabrication of Computationally Designed Microneedles by Continuous Liquid Interface Production

(2016) Ashley R. Johnson et al.   PLoS One

Layerless fabrication with continuous liquid interface production

(2016) Rima Janusziewicz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Laser-assisted direct ink writing of planar and 3D metal architectures

(2016) Mark A. Skylar-Scott et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Three-dimensional bioprinting of thick vascularized tissues

(2016) David B. Kolesky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

“ 2D or not 2D”: Shape-programming polymer sheets

(2016) Ying Liu et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Grayscale gel lithography for programmed buckling of non-Euclidean hydrogel plates

(2016) Jun-Hee Na et al.   Soft Matter

Mechanical Self-Assembly of a Strain-Engineered Flexible Layer: Wrinkling, Rolling, and Twisting

(2016) Zi Chen et al.   Physical Review Applied

Controlling sound with acoustic metamaterials

(2016) Steven A. Cummer et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Self-rolling and light-trapping in flexible quantum well-embedded nanomembranes for wide-angle infrared photodetectors

(2016) H. Wang et al.   Science Advances

Mechanical assembly of complex, 3D mesostructures from releasable multilayers of advanced materials

(2016) Z. Yan et al.   Science Advances

Multi-shape active composites by 3D printing of digital shape memory polymers

(2016) Jiangtao Wu et al.   Scientific Reports

Three-Dimensional Au Microlattices as Positive Electrodes for Li–O2 Batteries

(2015) Chen Xu et al.   ACS Nano

3D Printed Anatomical Nerve Regeneration Pathways

(2015) Blake N. Johnson et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

A Soft 3D Acoustic Metafluid with Dual-Band Negative Refractive Index

(2015) Simon Raffy et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A Multimaterial Bioink Method for 3D Printing Tunable, Cell-Compatible Hydrogels

(2015) Alexandra L. Rutz et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Monolithically integrated self-rolled-up microtube-based vertical coupler for three-dimensional photonic integration

(2015) Xin Yu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Mechanical Response of Hollow Metallic Nanolattices: Combining Structural and Material Size Effects

(2015) L. C. Montemayor et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

Materials by design: Using architecture in material design to reach new property spaces

(2015) Lauren Montemayor et al.   MRS BULLETIN

Printing mesoscale architectures

(2015) Jordan R. Raney et al.   MRS BULLETIN

Graphene kirigami

(2015) Melina K. Blees et al.   NATURE

Programmable and adaptive mechanics with liquid crystal polymer networks and elastomers

(2015) Timothy J. White et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Bending Rules in Graphene Kirigami

(2015) Bastien F. Grosso et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Algorithmic lattice kirigami: A route to pluripotent materials

(2015) Daniel M. Sussman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Resilient 3D hierarchical architected metamaterials

(2015) Lucas R. Meza et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A mechanically driven form of Kirigami as a route to 3D mesostructures in micro/nanomembranes

(2015) Yihui Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Voxelated liquid crystal elastomers

(2015) Taylor H. Ware et al.   SCIENCE

Continuous liquid interface production of 3D objects

(2015) J. R. Tumbleston et al.   SCIENCE

Assembly of micro/nanomaterials into complex, three-dimensional architectures by compressive buckling

(2015) S. Xu et al.   SCIENCE

Dynamic kirigami structures for integrated solar tracking

(2015) Aaron Lamoureux et al.   Nature Communications

Compact helical antenna for smart implant applications

(2015) Dmitriy D Karnaushenko et al.   NPG Asia Materials

Ultra-Small, High-Frequency, and Substrate-Immune Microtube Inductors Transformed from 2D to 3D

(2015) Xin Yu et al.   Scientific Reports

Hydrogenation-Assisted Graphene Origami and Its Application in Programmable Molecular Mass Uptake, Storage, and Release

(2014) Shuze Zhu et al.   ACS Nano

Toward Intelligent Synthetic Neural Circuits: Directing and Accelerating Neuron Cell Growth by Self-Rolled-Up Silicon Nitride Microtube Array

(2014) Paul Froeter et al.   ACS Nano

Programming Reversibly Self-Folding Origami with Micropatterned Photo-Crosslinkable Polymer Trilayers

(2014) Jun-Hee Na et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

3D Bioprinting of Vascularized, Heterogeneous Cell-Laden Tissue Constructs

(2014) David B. Kolesky et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

The Challenge of Manufacturing Between Macro and Micro

(2014) Robert Wood   AMERICAN SCIENTIST

Dynamics of Phononic Materials and Structures: Historical Origins, Recent Progress, and Future Outlook

(2014) Mahmoud I. Hussein et al.   Applied Mechanics Reviews

Precision Structural Engineering of Self-Rolled-up 3D Nanomembranes Guided by Transient Quasi-Static FEM Modeling

(2014) Wen Huang et al.   NANO LETTERS

3D Printed Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Diodes

(2014) Yong Lin Kong et al.   NANO LETTERS

Self-Folding Single Cell Grippers

(2014) Kate Malachowski et al.   NANO LETTERS

3D bioprinting of tissues and organs

(2014) Sean V Murphy et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Soft 3D acoustic metamaterial with negative index

(2014) Thomas Brunet et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Atomistic simulations of tension-induced large deformation and stretchability in graphene kirigami

(2014) Zenan Qi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Ultrathin Three-Dimensional Thermal Cloak

(2014) Hongyi Xu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Programmable Mechanical Metamaterials

(2014) Bastiaan Florijn et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Making the Cut: LatticeKirigamiRules

(2014) Toen Castle et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Experimental Demonstration of a Bilayer Thermal Cloak

(2014) Tiancheng Han et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

High-strength cellular ceramic composites with 3D microarchitecture

(2014) J. Bauer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Strong, lightweight, and recoverable three-dimensional ceramic nanolattices

(2014) L. R. Meza et al.   SCIENCE

Ultralight, ultrastiff mechanical metamaterials

(2014) X. Zheng et al.   SCIENCE

A method for building self-folding machines

(2014) S. Felton et al.   SCIENCE

Active origami by 4D printing

(2014) Qi Ge et al.   Smart Materials and Structures

Active Printed Materials for Complex Self-Evolving Deformations

(2014) Dan Raviv et al.   Scientific Reports

Three-dimensional printed trileaflet valve conduits using biological hydrogels and human valve interstitial cells

(2013) B. Duan et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

3D Printing of Free Standing Liquid Metal Microstructures

(2013) Collin Ladd et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

3D Soft Metamaterials with Negative Poisson's Ratio

(2013) Sahab Babaee et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

3D Printing of Interdigitated Li-Ion Microbattery Architectures

(2013) Ke Sun et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Naturally Rolled-Up C/Si/C Trilayer Nanomembranes as Stable Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries with Remarkable Cycling Performance

(2013) Junwen Deng et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Active materials by four-dimension printing

(2013) Qi Ge et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Mechanical characterization of hollow ceramic nanolattices

(2013) Lucas R. Meza et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE

Hydrogenation enabled scrolling of graphene

(2013) Shuze Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

3D Printed Bionic Ears

(2013) Manu S. Mannoor et al.   NANO LETTERS

Fabrication and deformation of three-dimensional hollow ceramic nanostructures

(2013) Dongchan Jang et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Soft Acoustic Metamaterials

(2013) T. Brunet et al.   SCIENCE

Three-dimensional shape transformations of hydrogel sheets induced by small-scale modulation of internal stresses

(2013) Zi Liang Wu et al.   Nature Communications

Reversible patterning and actuation of hydrogels by electrically assisted ionoprinting

(2013) Etienne Palleau et al.   Nature Communications

High-power lithium ion microbatteries from interdigitated three-dimensional bicontinuous nanoporous electrodes

(2013) James H. Pikul et al.   Nature Communications

Thinning and Shaping Solid Films into Functional and Integrative Nanomembranes

(2012) Gaoshan Huang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Photo-origami—Bending and folding polymers with light

(2012) Jennie Ryu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

3D Bioprinting of heterogeneous aortic valve conduits with alginate/gelatin hydrogels

(2012) Bin Duan et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART A

Silicon Micro-Machines for Fun and Profit

(2012) David Bishop et al.   JOURNAL OF LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS

Self-folding thin-film materials: From nanopolyhedra to graphene origami

(2012) Vivek B. Shenoy et al.   MRS BULLETIN

Rolled-up nanomembranes as compact 3D architectures for field effect transistors and fluidic sensing applications

(2012) Daniel Grimm et al.   NANO LETTERS

On-Chip Inductors with Self-Rolled-Up SiNx Nanomembrane Tubes: A Novel Design Platform for Extreme Miniaturization

(2012) Wen Huang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Macroporous nanowire nanoelectronic scaffolds for synthetic tissues

(2012) Bozhi Tian et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

From metamaterials to metadevices

(2012) Nikolay I. Zheludev et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Heat Flux Manipulation with Engineered Thermal Materials

(2012) Supradeep Narayana et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Hierarchical nanostructured conducting polymer hydrogel with high electrochemical activity

(2012) L. Pan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Design and optimization of a light-emitting diode projection micro-stereolithography three-dimensional manufacturing system

(2012) Xiaoyu Zheng et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Printing and Prototyping of Tissues and Scaffolds

(2012) B. Derby   SCIENCE

Designing Responsive Buckled Surfaces by Halftone Gel Lithography

(2012) Jungwook Kim et al.   SCIENCE

Direct Human Cartilage Repair Using Three-Dimensional Bioprinting Technology

(2012) Xiaofeng Cui et al.   TISSUE ENGINEERING PART A

Hybrid printing of mechanically and biologically improved constructs for cartilage tissue engineering applications

(2012) Tao Xu et al.   Biofabrication

Rapid 3D printing of anatomically accurate and mechanically heterogeneous aortic valve hydrogel scaffolds

(2012) L A Hockaday et al.   Biofabrication

Bioprinted Amniotic Fluid-Derived Stem Cells Accelerate Healing of Large Skin Wounds

(2012) Aleksander Skardal et al.   Stem Cells Translational Medicine

Self-rolled-up microtube ring resonators: a review of geometrical and resonant properties

(2012) Xiuling Li   Advances in Optics and Photonics

Semiconductor Nanomembrane Tubes: Three-Dimensional Confinement for Controlled Neurite Outgrowth

(2011) Minrui Yu et al.   ACS Nano

Conformal Printing of Electrically Small Antennas on Three-Dimensional Surfaces

(2011) Jacob J. Adams et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Rolled-up nanotech on polymers: from basic perception to self-propelled catalytic microengines

(2011) Yongfeng Mei et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Metamaterials: a new frontier of science and technology

(2011) Yongmin Liu et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Three-dimensional bicontinuous ultrafast-charge and -discharge bulk battery electrodes

(2011) Huigang Zhang et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Algorithmic design of self-folding polyhedra

(2011) S. Pandey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ultralight Metallic Microlattices

(2011) T. A. Schaedler et al.   SCIENCE

Nanoscale Origami for 3D Optics

(2011) Jeong-Hyun Cho et al.   Small

Self-folding of polymer sheets using local light absorption

(2011) Ying Liu et al.   Soft Matter

Differentially photo-crosslinked polymers enable self-assembling microfluidics

(2011) Mustapha Jamal et al.   Nature Communications

Three-Dimensional Nanostructures for Photonics

(2010) Georg von Freymann et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Programmable matter by folding

(2010) E. Hawkes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Three-Dimensional Invisibility Cloak at Optical Wavelengths

(2010) T. Ergin et al.   SCIENCE

Three-Dimensional Fabrication at Small Size Scales

(2010) Timothy G. Leong et al.   Small

Three dimensional silicon photonic crystals fabricated by two photon phase mask lithography

(2009) D. Shir et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Microassembly based on hands free origami with bidirectional curvature

(2009) Noy Bassik et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Nanodroplet Activated and Guided Folding of Graphene Nanostructures

(2009) Niladri Patra et al.   NANO LETTERS

Three-dimensional nanopillar-array photovoltaics on low-cost and flexible substrates

(2009) Zhiyong Fan et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Two- and three-dimensional folding of thin film single-crystalline silicon for photovoltaic power applications

(2009) X. Guo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tetherless thermobiochemically actuated microgrippers

(2009) Timothy G. Leong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Gold Helix Photonic Metamaterial as Broadband Circular Polarizer

(2009) J. K. Gansel et al.   SCIENCE

Omnidirectional Printing of Flexible, Stretchable, and Spanning Silver Microelectrodes

(2009) B. Y. Ahn et al.   SCIENCE

Catalytic Microtubular Jet Engines Self-Propelled by Accumulated Gas Bubbles

(2009) Alexander A. Solovev et al.   Small

Eutectic Gallium-Indium (EGaIn): A Liquid Metal Alloy for the Formation of Stable Structures in Microchannels at Room Temperature

(2008) Michael D. Dickey et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Patterning Thin Film Mechanical Properties to Drive Assembly of Complex 3D Structures

(2008) Noy Bassik et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Versatile Approach for Integrative and Functionalized Tubes by Strain Engineering of Nanomembranes on Polymers

(2008) Yongfeng Mei et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Strain induced semiconductor nanotubes: from formation process to device applications

(2008) Xiuling Li   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

Recent progress in multiphoton microfabrication

(2008) S. Maruo et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Three-dimensional optical metamaterial with a negative refractive index

(2008) Jason Valentine et al.   NATURE