Training and re-training liquid crystal elastomer metamaterials for pluripotent functionality
Fuente:
arXiv
Guardado en:
| Autores principales: | , , , , , |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Preprint |
| Publicado: |
2025
|
| Materias: | |
| Acceso en línea: | |
| Etiquetas: |
Agregar Etiqueta
Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!
|
| _version_ | 1866909508429676544 |
|---|---|
| author | Gowen, Savannah D. Ghimire, Elina Lindberg, Charlie A. Appen, Ingrid S. Rowan, Stuart J. Nagel, Sidney R. |
| author_facet | Gowen, Savannah D. Ghimire, Elina Lindberg, Charlie A. Appen, Ingrid S. Rowan, Stuart J. Nagel, Sidney R. |
| contents | Training has emerged as a promising materials design technique in which function can be acheived through repeated physical modification of an existing material rather than by direct chemical functionalization, cutting or reprocessing. This work investigates both the ability to train for function and then to erase that function on-demand in macroscopic metamaterials made from liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs). We first show that the Poisson's ratio of these disordered arrays can be tuned via directed aging to induce an auxetic response. We then show that the arrays can be reset and re-trained for another local mechanical function, allostery, thus demonstrating pluripotent functionality. |
| format | Preprint |
| id |
arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2502_17238 |
| institution | arXiv |
| publishDate | 2025 |
| record_format | arxiv |
| spellingShingle | Training and re-training liquid crystal elastomer metamaterials for pluripotent functionality Gowen, Savannah D. Ghimire, Elina Lindberg, Charlie A. Appen, Ingrid S. Rowan, Stuart J. Nagel, Sidney R. Materials Science Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Soft Condensed Matter Training has emerged as a promising materials design technique in which function can be acheived through repeated physical modification of an existing material rather than by direct chemical functionalization, cutting or reprocessing. This work investigates both the ability to train for function and then to erase that function on-demand in macroscopic metamaterials made from liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs). We first show that the Poisson's ratio of these disordered arrays can be tuned via directed aging to induce an auxetic response. We then show that the arrays can be reset and re-trained for another local mechanical function, allostery, thus demonstrating pluripotent functionality. |
| title | Training and re-training liquid crystal elastomer metamaterials for pluripotent functionality |
| topic | Materials Science Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Soft Condensed Matter |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17238 |