Laser reprogramming magnetic anisotropy in soft composites for reconfigurable 3D shaping

Heng Deng, Kianoosh Sattari, Yunchao Xie, Ping Liao, Zheng Yan and Jian Lin ()
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Heng Deng: University of Missouri
Kianoosh Sattari: University of Missouri
Yunchao Xie: University of Missouri
Ping Liao: University of Missouri
Zheng Yan: University of Missouri
Jian Lin: University of Missouri

Nature Communications, 2020, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-10

Abstract: Abstract Responsive soft materials capable of exhibiting various three-dimensional (3D) shapes under the same stimulus are desirable for promising applications including adaptive and reconfigurable soft robots. Here, we report a laser rewritable magnetic composite film, whose responsive shape-morphing behaviors induced by a magnetic field can be digitally and repeatedly reprogrammed by a facile method of direct laser writing. The composite film is made from an elastomer and magnetic particles encapsulated by a phase change polymer. Once the phase change polymer is temporarily melted by transient laser heating, the orientation of the magnetic particles can be re-aligned upon change of a programming magnetic field. By the digital laser writing on selective areas, magnetic anisotropies can be encoded in the composite film and then reprogrammed by repeating the same procedure, thus leading to multimodal 3D shaping under the same actuation magnetic field. Furthermore, we demonstrated their functional applications in assembling multistate 3D structures driven by the magnetic force-induced buckling, fabricating multistate electrical switches for electronics, and constructing reconfigurable magnetic soft robots with locomotion modes of peristalsis, crawling, and rolling.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-20229-6

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