Great technology comes out - paper can also bend, fold, shape by order

Imagine if you touch the flower with paper and suddenly it . how embarrassing, shrinking?

Do you believe it, paper - the old and so-so-familiar material that is familiar to us every day will become extremely interesting as they can bend, bend, shape according to orders.

New technology enables paper to flex, bend, and shape by order.

New technology is being developed at Carnegie Mellon University (HCII) Institute of Human-Computer Cooperation (Australia), which will turn a boring piece of material into a very vivid one.

The mechanism of operation of this technology is as follows. A layer of ultra-thin thermoplastic plastic is used on conventional paper applications with a low-cost 3D printer, or even hand-painted, the plastic layer acts as an actuator.

The current is applied to make the paper bend or fold.

When an electric current is applied, thermoplastic warms and expands, causing the paper to bend or fold; When the power is turned off, the paper will return to its original shape.

Lining Yao, assistant professor at HCII and director of the Morphing Matter Laboratory, who developed this method with his team, said: "We want to recreate this old material. The paper actually turns paper into another material, which can be used in both art and reality. "

Researcher Guanyun Wang - research intern Tingyu Cheng with members of Yao's Morphing Matter Laboratory designed some basic actuators, some based on the form of origami and kirigami.

Lampshades change the shape and amount of light emitted from the lamp.

This allows them to create structures that can turn into balls or cylinders and more complex objects.

For example, the lantern has changed the shape and amount of light emitted by the lamp, an artificial mimosa flower has petals that bloom when touched.

Lampshades change the shape and amount of light emitted from the lamp.

Last June, more than 50 students from Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China used this technology to create meticulously pop-up books of famous works of art like Starry Night. and Van Gogh's Sunflowers.

Yao's group presented this technology in April at CHI 2018, Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems, in Montreal.

Yao said the researchers are refining this method. There is still much work to do. The transmission process was slow, Yao and her team hoped this would be solved by technical materials - using higher thermal conductivity paper and developing calibrated printing fibers for use. used in actuators.

The actuators used with this paper can also be used for plastic and fabric.

Printing paper drive technology will be on display at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz (Austria); Bozar Fine Arts Center in Brussels (Belgium); and Hyundai Motorstudio in Beijing (China) in September.