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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Programmable Materials"”.
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Voltage programmable materials
The physical and chemical properties of nanoscale materials derive largely from structure and composition at interfaces. The possibility to electrically modify these interfacial characteristics would provide a powerful means to control material properties. Of particular recent scientific and …
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Towards programmable materials : tunable material properties through feedback control of conducting polymers
… as stiffness. Unlike muscle, current engineering materials are limited by their intrinsic properties, dictated at the molecular level.This work is focused on developing an integrated device, called a programmable material, which mirrors the capabilities of natural co-fabricated controlled …
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Fused filament fabrication to manufacture three- and four-dimensional objects made of shape memory polymers
Programmable materials can perform specific tasks with the function of stimuli, like temperature, where the programming of material is understood as the programming of a functionality. The internal structure of the programmable materials enables reversible material properties, behavior, or shape …
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Spatial material interfaces
… advances, these interfaces are re-envisioned as programmable materials, able to emulate dynamic physical properties to provide material-based affordances. In this work, I review the motivation and a brief history of Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) and examine the implications of the Radical Atoms …
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Exoskin : pneumatically augmenting inelastic materials for texture changing interfaces
Programmable materials have the power to bring to life inert materials in the world around us. Exoskin, provides a way to embed a multitude of static, rigid materials into actuatable, elastic membranes, allowing the new semi-rigid composites to sense, react, and compute. In this thesis, we give an …
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Voltage control of electrical, optical and magnetic properties of materials by solid state ionic transport and electrochemical reactions
… in thin film structures, where the properties of materials can be electrically controlled by a gate voltage in an addressable way. Here we explore using such ionic gating method to control the electrical, optical and magnetic properties of solid-state thin film layers, and show that large …
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Computational Fabrication and Assembly for In Situ Manufacturing
… fabrication machines, modular assembly, and programmable materials, the thesis will cover a digital fabrication platform for producing functional robots, a modular robotic platform for in-space assembly deployed in microgravity, and a method for programming magnetic material to selectively …
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Materializing interaction
… and we progress towards a world imbued with programmable materials, how will designers create physical surfaces that are adaptive and can take full advantage of our sensory apparatus? This dissertation looks at this question through the lens of a three-tier methodology consisting of the …
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Mechanics of Three-Dimensional Micro-Architected Interpenetrating Phase Composites
The design of modern composite materials, as used in a wide range of engineering applications, is largely derived from a traditional framework based on laminates. While resulting in desirable strength and stiffness properties, the laminate-based structure leads to a high degree of anisotropy and …
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Application-oriented development of thermoplastic polyurethanes with shape memory properties
Shape memory polymers (SMPs) are smart materials, that are capable of changing their shape in response to an external stimulus, typically a change in (ambient) temperature. This change in shape is commonly triggered after a thermomechanical treatment, enabling them to return to their original …
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Multivalent Programmable Interactions Between Lipid Vesicles: Towards Responsive Soft Materials
… to develop novel lipid-based soft responsive materials with potential ’real-world’ applications, such as in molecular sensing. In Chapter 1, the motivations for this work are introduced, before introducing the requisite background literature and general experimental techniques in Chapters 2 …