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Polymer origami: programming the folding with shape

  • Leonid Ionov EMAIL logo
From the journal e-Polymers

Abstract

The design of three-dimensional (3D) microstructures is an interesting, fascinating and highly challenging research topic. One of the very promising approaches for 3D microstructuring, inspired by the Japanese art of paper folding – origami, is based on self-folding films. Such films consist of two kinds of materials with different volume expansion properties and are able to form different structures ranging from simple tubes to highly complex 3D shapes. In this review, our recent progress in the design of polymer bilayers and understanding of their folding is summarized.


Corresponding author: Leonid Ionov, Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, Hohe Str. 6, 01069 Dresden, Germany, Tel: +49 3514658271, e-mail:

Acknowledgment

The author is grateful to DFG (grant IO 68/1-1) and IPF for financial support. The author is also grateful to Georgi Stoychev for his comments on the manuscript.

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Received: 2013-12-3
Accepted: 2014-2-10
Published Online: 2014-03-04
Published in Print: 2014-03-01

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