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  • Bio-inspired Engineering
  • Sustainable Materials

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  • Sustainable shape-changing materials from renewable resources are underexplored.
  • Biological structures offer inspiration for advanced materials with passive structural morphing.
  • Parsimony-oriented innovation is gaining interest.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To design novel 4D printed tubular moisture-driven structural actuators using continuous flax fiber (cFF) reinforced materials.
  • To create a new class of bioinspired active materials termed metabiocomposites.
  • To explore the potential applications of these bioinspired actuators.

Main Methods:

  • Simplifying plant fiber cell wall architecture for design.
  • Producing materials using a customized rotary 3D printer.
  • Conducting experimental, analytical, and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to study sorption behavior and actuation authority.

Main Results:

  • Metabiocomposites exhibit moisture-driven actuation.
  • Material performance is programmable through mesostructural (printing inclination α) and geometric (length L, diameter D, thickness h) parameters.
  • Achieved energy density is comparable to natural fiber cell walls, with a trade-off between rotation and torque.

Conclusions:

  • The developed metabiocomposites represent a new class of bioinspired active materials.
  • These materials offer programmable actuation for sustainable, passive structural morphing.
  • Proof-of-concept demonstrates potential for applications like meteosensitive rotative structures and solar trackers.