Award Abstract # 2005374
CAREER: Mechanics of Kirigami-based Reconfigurable Structures

NSF Org: CMMI
Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation
Recipient: NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
Initial Amendment Date: January 30, 2020
Latest Amendment Date: January 30, 2020
Award Number: 2005374
Award Instrument: Standard Grant
Program Manager: Siddiq Qidwai
sqidwai@nsf.gov
 (703)292-2211
CMMI
 Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation
ENG
 Directorate for Engineering
Start Date: September 1, 2019
End Date: March 31, 2025 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $483,556.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $483,556.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2019 = $483,555.00
History of Investigator:
  • Jie Yin (Principal Investigator)
    jyin8@ncsu.edu
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: North Carolina State University
2601 WOLF VILLAGE WAY
RALEIGH
NC  US  27695-0001
(919)515-2444
Sponsor Congressional District: 02
Primary Place of Performance: North Carolina State University
NC  US  27695-7001
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
02
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): U3NVH931QJJ3
Parent UEI: U3NVH931QJJ3
NSF Program(s): CAREER: FACULTY EARLY CAR DEV,
Mechanics of Materials and Str
Primary Program Source: 01001920DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s): 022E, 024E, 1045, 9161
Program Element Code(s): 104500, 163000
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.041

ABSTRACT

This Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award will support fundamental research on the mechanical behavior of kirigami-based reconfigurable two dimensional (2D) and three dimensional (3D) structures. Very recently, kirigami, the ancient paper cutting art, has inspired emerging scientific research and engineering innovations, ranging from mechanical metamaterials, stretchable devices, and solar tracking, to self-assembled 3D meso-structures. However, it largely lacks the fundamental understanding of cut-structures determined macroscopic mechanical response of kirigami structures. This research program will establish a theoretical framework for connecting the macroscopic mechanical behavior and cuts-based microstructures in a new class of kirigami-based structures, which are reconfigurable in both 2D and 3D. The knowledge developed through this project will advance multiple technologies, including scaffolds for conformable and stretchable electronics, electronic skin, adaptive energy efficient building envelope, programmable soft machines, soft robots, and reconfigurable acoustic wave guides. The education and outreach objectives will align with the research goal in generating better understanding of mechanics and structure-determined properties and functionalities in kirigami structures. Programs at Temple and museums in Philadelphia will be used to broaden the participation of K-12 in STEM, including Women's Engineering Exploration summer program and STEM education department at Temple, as well as Science museum displays (Franklin Institute) and Art show (Philadelphia Museum of Art) in Philadelphia.

Kirigami-based 2D/3D structures will be constructed by applying designed cuts and/or folds to both planar sheets and bulk materials for actuation under forces or external stimuli. Systematic theoretical framework will be developed to predict the kinematics and constitutive modeling of 2D and 3D kirigami structures, with validation by numerical simulation, fabrication, and experimental testing. For 2D structures, a unified design of patterned cuts will account for both symmetric and non-symmetric deformation. The quantitative relationship between the overall mechanical properties and the geometry of localized cut structures will be determined through developed homogenization continuum model. 3D reconfigurable kirigami structures will be constructed from either (self-) folding of kirigami sheets or assembly of 3D cut polyhedron units as fundamental building blocks for architected structures. For 3D architected kirigami structures, their reconfigurability and mechanical properties will be determined by the deformation modes in localized 3D cut units. A theoretical framework will be developed to predict the overall deformation modes through mode analysis under both small and finite deformation.

This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

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Chi, Yinding and Hong, Yaoye and Zhao, Yao and Li, Yanbin and Yin, Jie "Snapping for high-speed and high-efficient butterfly strokelike soft swimmer" Science Advances , v.8 , 2022 https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.add3788 Citation Details
Chi, Yinding and Tang, Yichao and Liu, Haijun and Yin, Jie "Leveraging Monostable and Bistable PreCurved Bilayer Actuators for HighPerformance Multitask Soft Robots" Advanced Materials Technologies , v.5 , 2020 https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202000370 Citation Details
Hong, Yaoye and Chi, Yinding and Wu, Shuang and Li, Yanbin and Zhu, Yong and Yin, Jie "Boundary curvature guided programmable shape-morphing kirigami sheets" Nature Communications , v.13 , 2022 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28187-x Citation Details
Hong, Yaoye and Zhao, Yao and Berman, Joseph and Chi, Yinding and Li, Yanbin and Huang, He and Yin, Jie "Angle-programmed tendril-like trajectories enable a multifunctional gripper with ultradelicacy, ultrastrength, and ultraprecision" Nature Communications , v.14 , 2023 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39741-6 Citation Details
Li, Yanbin and Di_Lallo, Antonio and Zhu, Junxi and Chi, Yinding and Su, Hao and Yin, Jie "Adaptive hierarchical origami-based metastructures" Nature Communications , v.15 , 2024 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50497-5 Citation Details
Li, Yanbin and Song, Xiaolei and Liu, Haijun and Yin, Jie "Geometric mechanics of folded kirigami structures with tunable bandgap" Extreme Mechanics Letters , v.49 , 2021 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2021.101483 Citation Details
Li, Yanbin and Yin, Jie "Metamorphosis of three-dimensional kirigami-inspired reconfigurable and reprogrammable architected matter" Materials Today Physics , v.21 , 2021 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtphys.2021.100511 Citation Details
Li, Yanbin and Yu, Shuangyue and Qing, Haitao and Hong, Yaoye and Zhao, Yao and Qi, Fangjie and Su, Hao and Yin, Jie "Reprogrammable and reconfigurable mechanical computing metastructures with stable and high-density memory" Science Advances , v.10 , 2024 https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ado6476 Citation Details
Li, Yanbin and Zhang, Qiuting and Hong, Yaoye and Yin, Jie "3D Transformable Modular Kirigami Based Programmable Metamaterials" Advanced Functional Materials , v.31 , 2021 https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202105641 Citation Details
Li, Yanbin and Zhao, Yao and Chi, Yinding and Hong, Yaoye and Yin, Jie "Shape-morphing materials and structures for energy-efficient building envelopes" Materials Today Energy , v.22 , 2021 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtener.2021.100874 Citation Details
Qi, Fangjie and Li, Yanbin and Hong, Yaoye and Zhao, Yao and Qing, Haitao and Yin, Jie "Defected twisted ring topology for autonomous periodic flipspinorbit soft robot" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , v.121 , 2024 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2312680121 Citation Details
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