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arXiv 1802.02704cond-mat.soft
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有限温度下的折叠机构

Folding mechanisms at finite temperature

D. Zeb Rocklin, Vincenzo Vitelli, Xiaoming Mao

摘要:

折叠机构是零弹性能量运动,对于折纸、连杆、可重构超材料和机器人结构的部署至关重要。在本文中,我们确定的命运折叠机制时,这种结构的小型化,使热波动不能被忽略。首先,我们确定几何和拓扑设计策略,旨在尽量减少不必要的热能障碍,一般阻碍运动机制在微尺度。我们的研究结果说明在一个准一维的链接结构,窝藏一个拓扑保护机制的背景下。然而,热波动也可以被利用来故意将可重新配置的超材料锁定到完全扩展的配置中,这一过程让人想起磁性系统中的无序转变。我们证明,这种效应导致某些拓扑力学结构表现出突然的压力变化-在有限温度下的基本拓扑不变量的批量签名。最后,我们讨论了非谐校正和我们的工作的DNA折纸设备和分子机器人的工程的潜在应用。

英文摘要:

Folding mechanisms are zero elastic energy motions essential to the deployment of origami, linkages, reconfigurable metamaterials and robotic structures. In this paper, we determine the fate of folding mechanisms when such structures are miniaturized so that thermal fluctuations cannot be neglected. First, we identify geometric and topological design strategies aimed at minimizing undesired thermal energy barriers that generically obstruct kinematic mechanisms at the microscale. Our findings are illustrated in the context of a quasi one-dimensional linkage structure that harbors a topologically protected mechanism. However, thermal fluctuations can also be exploited to deliberately lock a reconfigurable metamaterial into a fully expanded configuration, a process reminiscent of order by disorder transitions in magnetic systems. We demonstrate that this effect leads certain topological mechanical structures to exhibit an abrupt change in the pressure -- a bulk signature of the underlying topological invariant at finite temperature. We conclude with a discussion of anharmonic corrections and potential applications of our work to the the engineering of DNA origami devices and molecular robots.

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