• 文献标题:   Graphene-based bimorphs for micron-sized, autonomous origami machines
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   MISKIN MZ, DORSEY KJ, BIRCAN B, HAN Y, MULLER DA, MCEUEN PL, COHEN I
  • 作者关键词:   origami, graphene, bimorph, selffolding, atomic membrane
  • 出版物名称:   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
  • ISSN:   0027-8424
  • 通讯作者地址:   Cornell Univ
  • 被引频次:   35
  • DOI:   10.1073/pnas.1712889115
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

Origami-inspired fabrication presents an attractive platform for miniaturizing machines: thinner layers of folding material lead to smaller devices, provided that key functional aspects, such as conductivity, stiffness, and flexibility, are persevered. Here, we show origami fabrication at its ultimate limit by using 2D atomic membranes as a folding material. As a prototype, we bond graphene sheets to nanometer-thick layers of glass to make ultrathin bimorph actuators that bend to micrometer radii of curvature in response to small strain differentials. These strains are two orders of magnitude lower than the fracture threshold for the device, thus maintaining conductivity across the structure. By patterning 2-mu m-thick rigid panels on top of bimorphs, we localize bending to the unpatterned regions to produce folds. Although the graphene bimorphs are only nanometers thick, they can lift these panels, the weight equivalent of a 500-nm-thick silicon chip. Using panels and bimorphs, we can scale down existing origami patterns to produce a wide range of machines. These machines change shape in fractions of a second when crossing a tunable pH threshold, showing that they sense their environments, respond, and perform useful functions on time and length scales comparable with microscale biological organisms. With the incorporation of electronic, photonic, and chemical payloads, these basic elements will become a powerful platform for robotics at the micrometer scale.