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Fracture of liquid crystal elastomers. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are anisotropic, viscoelastic materials integrating polymer networks and liquid crystals. While their mechanical responses have been extensively studied, their fracture behavior remains largely unexplored. Specifically, the effect of the deformation-director coupling on LCE fracture paths is unknown, and fracture ...
Zhou Y, Wei C, Jin L.
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Elasticity of polydomain liquid crystal elastomers [PDF]

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2012
Liquid crystal elastomers are rubbery networks of entropically dominated polymer chains that exhibit mobile liquid crystalline order. These materials have been of recent interest for the soft behavior (large deformations at relatively small stresses ...
Biggins, J. S., Warner, M., Bhattacharya, K.   +2 more
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Liquid crystal elastomers as machines

, 2017
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are rubber-like solids that spontaneously deform under stimuli such as a temperature change, light and electric field. The nature of the spontaneous deformation can be controlled in nematic genesis LCEs by controlling the
Bhattacharya, Kaushik
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Robotic conformal 4D printing of liquid crystal elastomers. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Chung C, Jiang H, Gracego AX, Dunn ML, Yu K.   +4 more
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Liquid crystal-based elastomers in tissue engineering

Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) play role in tissue engineering investigations, with the combination of orientational ordering generated by liquid crystal (LC) moieties and the elastic capabilities of polymers.
Tuncgovde, EB, Kemiklioglu, E, Gurboga, B   +2 more
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Stimuli-Responsive Afterglow from Luminescent Liquid Crystal Elastomers. [PDF]

Adv Mater
Yue L, Debije MG, Schenning APHJ.
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Impact of dynamic bond strength on the training of liquid crystal elastomers. [PDF]

Chem Sci
Ghimire E, Appen IS, Lindberg CA, Blagitz de Abreu E Silva L, Rowan SJ.   +4 more
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A Light-Driven Self-Spinning and Translation Disc Exploiting Photothermal Liquid Crystal Elastomers. [PDF]

Micromachines (Basel)
Li C, Xu L, Dai Y, Dai Y.
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Competing Effects of Network Architecture and Composition on Polydomain Liquid Crystal Elastomers. [PDF]

Macromolecules
Yang DT, Zheng CW, Chan CLC, Maguire SM, Ostermann EC, Davidson EC.   +5 more
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Unveiling the role of base catalysts in the thiol-Michael addition reaction in liquid crystal oligomers and liquid crystal elastomers. [PDF]

Chem Sci
Dinc RU, Lub J, Lou X, Kragt AJJ, Schenning APHJ.   +4 more
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