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Stiffening Liquid Crystal Elastomers with Liquid Crystal Inclusions

Advanced Materials
Abstract Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are promising building blocks for soft robots, given their large, programmable, reversible, and stimuli‐responsive shape change. Enhancing LCEs’ stiffness and toughness has been a longstanding desire previously explored by reinforcing them with fillers, crystalline microdomains, and ...
Sahad Vasanji, Matthew Gene Scarfo, Arwa Alyami, Tizazu H. Mekonnen, Parsin Hajireza, Mohand O. Saed, Antal Jákli, Hamed Shahsavan   +7 more
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Additive Manufacturing of Alumina‐Reinforced Elastomers

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Vat‐photopolymerized elastomers reinforced with platelet‐shaped alumina exhibited preferential orientation, reduced porosity, and significantly enhanced mechanical performance. A 3 wt% platelet loading increased tensile strength from 12.4 to 45.7 MPa, highlighting the critical role of filler morphology in elastomeric VPP composites.
Majid Barzegar Keyvani, Zongwen Fu, Robert Göstl, Hamed Shokri, Carmine Putignano, Gianluca Percoco, Bilal Gökce   +6 more
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Theoretical Modeling of Light-Fueled Self-Harvesting in Piezoelectric Beams Actuated by Liquid Crystal Elastomer Fibers

Mathematics
Traditional energy harvesting systems, such as photovoltaics and wind power, often rely on external environmental conditions and are typically associated with contact-based vibration wear and bulky structures.
Lin Zhou, Haiming Chen, Wu Bao, Xuehui Chen, Ting Gao, Dali Ge   +5 more
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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas, Marzia Dulal, Sophia K. Novoselov, Victoria K. Novoselov, Kostya S. Novoselov, Shaila Afroj, Nazmul Karim   +6 more
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Liquid crystal elastomer foams with elastic properties specifically engineered as biodegradable brain tissue scaffolds [PDF]

, 2018
3D liquid crystal elastomer foams (LCEs) scaffold materials as dynamic substrates for cell culture, going beyond designing only a physical static 3D scaffold.
S. L. M. Alexander, Z. Nikolov, M. T. Brannum, B. Kinsel, L. T. J. Korley, S. T. Rafferty, R. J. Clements, H. Andro, E. Hegmann, E. J. Freeman, S. Ustunel, J. A. McDonough, M. E. Prévôt, C. Zhu   +13 more
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Biodegradable and Biocompatible Functional Polymers for Biomedical Applications

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Biodegradable and biocompatible functional polymers integrate electrical, mechanical, and stimuli‐responsive functionalities while enabling programmed degradation under physiological conditions. This review introduces recent advances in conductive, shape‐memory, self‐healing, photocurable, and adhesive polymer systems, emphasizing material design ...
Won Bae Han, Shuvra Mondal, Sungkeun Han, Chan‐Hwi Eom, Venkata Ramesh Naganaboina, Suk‐Won Hwang   +5 more
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A Highly Sensitive Resistive Pressure Sensor Based on a Carbon Nanotube-Liquid Crystal-PDMS Composite

Nanomaterials, 2018
Resistive pressure sensors generally employ microstructures such as pores and pyramids in the active layer or on the electrodes to reduce the Young’s modulus and improve the sensitivity.
Jin Pan, Shiyu Liu, Yicheng Yang, Jiangang Lu   +3 more
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On the Hydrodynamics of Hyperbolic Liquid Crystal Elastomers

SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis
Minor corrections; 42 ...
Xiaonan Hao, Jiaxi Huang, Ning Jiang
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Liquid Crystal Elastomer Microspheres as Three-Dimensional Cell Scaffolds Supporting the Attachment and Proliferation of Myoblasts [PDF]

, 2015
We report that liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs), often portrayed as artificial muscles, serve as scaffolds for skeletal muscle cell. A simultaneous microemulsion photopolymerization and cross-linking results in nematic LCE microspheres 10–30 μm in ...
Jennifer A. McDonough (1571266), Torsten Hegmann (572857), Donald W. Miller (1571260), Ernest J. Freeman (1571269), Christopher Malcuit (88585), Robert J. Clements (1571263), Asaad Aladlaan (1571257), Elda Hegmann (572858), Tanmay Bera (1571272)   +8 more
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Advancements in Hypersaline Wastewater Treatment: The Promise of Quasi‐Liquid Surfaces to Reduce Salt Scaling

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Durable quasi‐liquid polymer brush surfaces provide an anti‐scaling strategy for hypersaline brine evaporation and zero‐liquid‐discharge desalination. The smooth, liquid‐like QLS interface suppresses substrate‐side salt nucleation, promotes compact crystallization and dewetting, reduces crystal–surface contact area, and enables low‐adhesion salt ...
Mohammed Imran Khan, Bei Fan
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