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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2006

Capillary Origami

Résumé

The wet fur of a dog coming out of a pond assembles into bunches: this is the most common effect of capillary forces on elasticity structures (the hairs). From a practical point of view, the deformation of flexible elements by surface tension forces dramatically damages mechanical microsystems or lung airways, but also allows the self-organization of nanotube carpets into well defined clump patterns. But capillary forces may generate even more complex structures when flexible sheets are brought to contact with a liquid interface. Here we present experiments where surface tension folds up an elastic sheet around a deposited water droplet, and discuss the different possible shapes obtained. These self-folding origami may be used in microsy stems design as a convenient and robust way to fold two-dimensional planar patterns into 3-dimensional structures, since surface tension effects are enhanced at small scales
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hal-00165483 , version 1 (26-07-2007)

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  • HAL Id : hal-00165483 , version 1

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Charlotte Py, Lionel Doppler, José Bico, Benoit Roman, Paul Reverdy, et al.. Capillary Origami. 59th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics, Nov 2006, Tampa Bay, Florida, United States. pp.BAPS.2006.DFD.OJ.7. ⟨hal-00165483⟩
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