Title
Spiral Folding of Thin Films with Curved Surface
Date Issued
16 January 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Miura S.
Ogawa K.
Miyashita T.
Universidad de Waseda
Publisher(s)
Instituto Americano de Aeronáutica y Astronáutica Inc, AIAA
Abstract
Being ubiquitously used as anti-adhesive and wound-covering mechanisms, thin films have potential therapeutic uses as cell sheets to target inner organs while navigating narrow environments. A significant challenge to realize versatile films lies in achieving compact storage and efficient transport while ensuring coherency in curvature-bounded environments. In this paper, we propose a folding mechanism of a curved film by using a spiral approach, enabling efficient unfolding and flexible plasters with curved surfaces. Our experiments using gelatin-based films with curved surfaces shows the superior indwelling ability in terms of chromaticity level compared to the conventional planar films, as well as the efficient unfolding in the order of seconds. Our results presents the theoretical and experimental building blocks to realize a versatile class of films which are able to navigate narrow environments, and unfold efficiently and flexibly.
Start page
1699
End page
1704
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Matemáticas aplicadas Ingeniería relacionada con la energía nuclear
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85062215775
ISBN of the container
9781538666500
Conference
Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2018
Sponsor(s)
Sociedad Japonesa para la Promoción de la Ciencia 17K18942 JSP
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