Origami-inspired active graphene-based paper for programmable instant self-folding walking devices

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Origami-inspired self-folding graphene papers show remote control grasping, manipulation, and walking behaviors.

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Origami-inspired active graphene-based paper with programmed gradients in vertical and lateral directions is developed to address many of the limitations of polymer active materials including slow response and violent operation methods. Specifically, we used function-designed graphene oxide as nanoscale building blocks to fabricate an all-graphene self-folding paper that has a single-component gradient structure. A functional device composed of this graphene paper can (i) adopt predesigned shapes, (ii) walk, and (iii) turn a corner. These processes can be remote-controlled by gentle light or heating. We believe that this self-folding material holds potential for a wide range of applications such as sensing, artificial muscles, and robotics.

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Journal

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Sci Adv

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Sci Adv

Journal ID (publisher-id): SciAdv

Journal ID (hwp): advances

Title: Science Advances

Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science

ISSN (Electronic): 2375-2548

Publication date Collection: November 2015

Publication date (Electronic): 06 November 2015

Volume: 1

Issue: 10

Electronic Location Identifier: e1500533

Affiliations

[1 ]State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, People’s Republic of China.

[2 ]Engineering Research Center of Advanced Glasses Manufacturing Technology, Ministry of Education, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, People’s Republic of China.

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These authors contributed equally to this work.

[† ]Corresponding author. E-mail: wanghz@ 123456dhu.edu.cn (H.W.); zhangqh@ 123456dhu.edu.cn (Q.Z.)

Article

Publisher ID: 1500533

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1500533

PMC ID: 4640590

PubMed ID: 26601135

SO-VID: 6f471097-e56f-44c2-bb35-8f1172a6d153

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This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited.

History

Date received : 29 April 2015

Date accepted : 03 September 2015

Funding

Funded by: the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities;

Award ID: ID0EEMCI3271

Award ID: 2232014A3-06

Award Recipient : Hongzhi Wang

Funded by: NSF of China;

Award ID: ID0EMUCI3762

Award ID: 51172042

Award Recipient : Jiuke Mu

Funded by: Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China;

Award ID: ID0EM3CI3763

Award ID: IRT1221, No.111-2-04