TY - CHAP

T1 - Chapter 5

T2 - Bending, jumping, and self-healing crystals

AU - Naumov, Panče

AU - Chizhik, Stanislav

AU - Commins, Patrick

AU - Boldyreva, Elena

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2020 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA. All rights reserved. Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2019/11/19

Y1 - 2019/11/19

N2 - Crystal adaptronics - study of dynamic crystals that exhibit macroscopic motion in response to heat, light, and other stimuli - has grown to be a vibrant research field in the past two decades, even though the first examples of such systems were documented since the 1980s. The reason can be sought in the prospects for numerous applications of such materials as microscopic crystalline switches that range from wearable electronics to biomedical sciences and practice. The mechanical responses include motility such as displacement, jumping, and even explosion, and reshaping such as bending, curling, twisting, or coiling. It has been demonstrated recently that some of these effects occur in a predictable manner that can be described mathematically. In this chapter we present a simplified summary of mathematical interpretation of crystal bending, the simplest of these well-explored effects. We also highlight new directions in this research field, such as studies of salient and self-healing crystals, which are documented but much less understood than the bending crystals.

AB - Crystal adaptronics - study of dynamic crystals that exhibit macroscopic motion in response to heat, light, and other stimuli - has grown to be a vibrant research field in the past two decades, even though the first examples of such systems were documented since the 1980s. The reason can be sought in the prospects for numerous applications of such materials as microscopic crystalline switches that range from wearable electronics to biomedical sciences and practice. The mechanical responses include motility such as displacement, jumping, and even explosion, and reshaping such as bending, curling, twisting, or coiling. It has been demonstrated recently that some of these effects occur in a predictable manner that can be described mathematically. In this chapter we present a simplified summary of mathematical interpretation of crystal bending, the simplest of these well-explored effects. We also highlight new directions in this research field, such as studies of salient and self-healing crystals, which are documented but much less understood than the bending crystals.

KW - Crystal adaptronics

KW - Dynamic crystals

KW - Mechanical properties

KW - Photomechanical effects

KW - Photosalient effect

KW - Self-healing

KW - Thermosalient effect

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85100362637&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1002/9783527822201.ch5

DO - 10.1002/9783527822201.ch5

M3 - Chapter

AN - SCOPUS:85100362637

SN - 9783527346202

SP - 105

EP - 138

BT - Mechanically Responsive Materials for Soft Robotics

PB - Wiley-VCH Verlag

ER -