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SUBMITTER: Seifi H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5259711 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Seifi Hamed H Javan Anooshe Rezaee AR Ghaedizadeh Arash A Shen Jianhu J Xu Shanqing S Xie Yi Min YM
Scientific reports 20170124
In this paper we propose a general method for creating a new type of hierarchical structures at any level in both 2D and 3D. A simple rule based on a rotate-and-mirror procedure is introduced to achieve multi-level hierarchies. These new hierarchical structures have remarkably few degrees of freedom compared to existing designs by other methods. More importantly, these structures exhibit synchronized motions during opening or closure, resulting in uniform and easily-controllable deformations. Fu ...[more]