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Snapping Surfaces for Sensors and Adhesion Control
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
posted on 07/29/2010
This invention involves creating shape transition at responsive interfaces or surfaces by employing simple features such as shells, plates or columns, that are integrated into a material’s surface or interface through simple processes of molding or self-assembly. Upon application of a given stimulus (e.g. weight, light, chemical, thermal) the structures will spontaneously transform their shape due to the onset of elastic instability. This instability is a “snap-through” event which induces the shape transition of the material surface.
File Number: UMA 06-06
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Investigator(s)
Alfred J. Crosby
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