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Chiral liquid crystal elastomers advance light modulation [PDF]

Light: Science & Applications
Chiral liquid crystal elastomers, as soft photonic materials, enable dynamic omnidirectional tuning of circularly polarized reflection wavelength and function as an effective medium for full-color circularly polarized luminescence, showing promise for ...
Jiazhe Ma, Zhongqiang Yang
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Shape programming of liquid crystal elastomers [PDF]

Communications Chemistry
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are shape-morphing materials that demonstrate reversible actuation when exposed to external stimuli, such as light or heat.
Andraž Rešetič
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Polymer-dispersed liquid crystal elastomers [PDF]

Nature Communications, 2016
Liquid crystal elastomers are promising for building actuators due to excellent thermomechanical response, but it is challenging to prepare them at macroscale with arbitrary shape.
Andraž Rešetič, Jerneja Milavec, Blaž Zupančič, Valentina Domenici, Boštjan Zalar   +4 more
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Multifunctional Ionene Liquid Crystal Elastomers. [PDF]

ACS Appl Mater Interfaces
Kuzel Z, Clement A, Tabrizi M, AboHussien A, Irla S, Seresht HB, Chun Y, Tristram-Nagle S, Liu Q, Shankar MR.   +9 more
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Photothermal-Driven Liquid Crystal Elastomers: Materials, Alignment and Applications [PDF]

Molecules, 2022
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are programmable deformable materials that can respond to physical fields such as light, heat, and electricity. Photothermal-driven LCE has the advantages of accuracy and remote control and avoids the requirement of high ...
Wei Zhang, Yifei Nan, Zongxuan Wu, Yajing Shen, Dan Luo   +4 more
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Liquid Crystal Elastomers for Biological Applications [PDF]

Nanomaterials, 2021
The term liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) describes a class of materials that combine the elastic entropy behaviour associated with conventional elastomers with the stimuli responsive properties of anisotropic liquid crystals.
Mariam Hussain, Ethan I. L. Jull, Richard J. Mandle, Thomas Raistrick, Peter J. Hine, Helen F. Gleeson   +5 more
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Electrically Controlled Liquid Crystal Elastomer Surfaces for Dynamic Wrinkling [PDF]

Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are becoming increasingly popular as a shape memory material for soft robot actuators that operate in a contractile or flexural mode. There have been previously studies on the use of LCEs for reversible changes in surface
Zefang Li, Gina Olson, Dinesh K. Patel, Lining Yao, Carmel Majidi   +4 more
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Artificial Phototropic Systems for Enhanced Light Harvesting Based on a Liquid Crystal Elastomer

Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2021
Oblique‐incidence‐induced energy‐density loss (OEL) is a universal problem which affects nearly all processes involving electromagnetic waves, especially sunlight harvesting.
Yichen Yan, Yusen Zhao, Yousif Alsaid, Bowen Yao, Yucheng Zhang, Shuwang Wu, Ximin He   +6 more
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Elasticity of Polydomain Liquid Crystal Elastomers [PDF]

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2011
We model polydomain liquid-crystal elastomers by extending the neo-classical soft and semi-soft free energies used successfully to describe monodomain samples. We show that there is a significant difference between polydomains cross-linked in homogeneous
Bhattacharya, K., Biggins, J. S., Warner, M.   +2 more
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Stiffening Liquid Crystal Elastomers with Liquid Crystal Inclusions. [PDF]

Adv Mater
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 ...
Vasanji S, Scarfo MG, Alyami A, Mekonnen TH, Hajireza P, Saed MO, Jákli A, Shahsavan H.   +7 more
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