Active Reconfigurable Tristable Square‐Twist Origami

• Published in: Advanced functional materials Vol. 30; no. 13
• Main Authors: Wang, Li‐Chen, Song, Wei‐Li, Zhang, Ya‐Jing, Qu, Mei‐Jun, Zhao, Zeang, Chen, Mingji, Yang, Yazheng, Chen, Haosen, Fang, Daining
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.03.2020
• Subjects: Automation; Channel capacity; Communications systems; Configurations; Formability; frequency reconfigurable antennas; Manufacturing engineering; Material properties; materials origami; Materials science; Metamaterials; Morphing; multistable structures; Potential energy; Reconfiguration; Robotics; Stiffness

Origami structures offer valuable applications in many fields, ranging from metamaterials to robotics. The multistable characteristics of origami structures have been pursued for acquiring unique reconfigurable features. For achieving this goal, an unusual polymeric tristable origami structure is de...