3D-to-3D Microscale Shape-Morphing from Configurable Helices with Controlled Chirality

Tunable and reconfigurable materials with autonomic shape transformation in response to the environment have emerged as one of the most promising approaches for a variety of biomedical applications, such as tissue engineering, biosensing, and in vivo biomedical devices. Currently, it is still quite challenging to fabricate soft, microscaled 3D shape-reconfigurable structures due to either complicated microfabrication or limited microscale photopolymerization-based printing approaches to enable adaptive shape transformation. Here, a one-step photo-cross-linking approach has been demonstrated to obtain a 3D-to-3D morphological transformable microhelix from a self-rolled hydrogel microsheet, resulting in chirality conversion. It was enabled by a custom-designed "hard" stripe/"soft" groove topography on the microsheets for introducing, which introduced both in-planar and out-of-planar anisotropies. Both experiment and simulation confirmed that a stripe/groove geometry can effectively control the 3D transformation by activating in-planar or/and out-of-planar mismatch stress within the microsheets, resulting in switching of the rolling direction between perpendicular/parallel to the length of the stripe. Furthermore, versatile 3D microconstructs with the ability to transform between two distinct 3D configurations have been achieved based on controlled rolling of microhelices, demonstrated as "windmill"-to-"T-cross" and "cylinder"-to-"scroll" transformations and dynamic blossoming of biomimetic orchids. In contrast to conventional 2D-to-3D micro-origami, we have successfully demonstrated an approach for fabricating microscale, all-soft-material-based constructs with autonomic 3D-to-3D structural transformation, which presents an opportunity for designing more complex hydrogel-based microrobotics.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

ACS applied materials & interfaces - 13(2021), 51 vom: 29. Dez., Seite 61723-61732

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhao, Zhenyu [VerfasserIn]
He, Yisheng [VerfasserIn]
Meng, Xiao [VerfasserIn]
Ye, Chunhong [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Biocompatible Materials
Chirality
Hydrogels
Journal Article
Microfabrication
Microrobotic
Responsive polymers
Shape configuration

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Date Completed 17.03.2022

Date Revised 17.03.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/acsami.1c15711

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM334499100