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Programmable optical encryption using thickness-controlled stretchable chiral liquid crystal elastomers [PDF]

Light: Science & Applications
The growing demand for cryptographic security encourages the innovation of advanced materials with unique optical properties to secure information using light.
Seungmin Nam, Seohyun Woo, Ji Yoon Park, Su Seok Choi   +3 more
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Omnidirectional color wavelength tuning of stretchable chiral liquid crystal elastomers [PDF]

Light: Science & Applications
Wavelength-tunable structural colors using stimuli-responsive materials, such as chiral liquid crystals (CLCs), have attracted increasing attention owing to their high functionality in various tunable photonic applications.
Seungmin Nam, Wontae Jung, Jun Hyuk Shin, Su Seok Choi   +3 more
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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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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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Spatially programmed alignment and actuation in printed liquid crystal elastomers. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Significance Aligned liquid crystal elastomers (LCE) are soft materials that exhibit reversible actuation akin to human muscles when thermally cycled above their nematic-to-isotropic transition temperature.
Telles R, Kotikian A, Freychet G, Zhernenkov M, Wąsik P, Yavitt BM, Barrera JL, Cook CC, Pindak R, Davidson EC, Lewis JA.   +10 more
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Coaxial Direct Ink Writing of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomers in 3D Architectures. [PDF]

Adv Mater
Cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers (CLCEs) hold great promise for mechanochromic applications in anti‐counterfeiting, smart textiles, and soft robotics, thanks to the structural color and elasticity. While CLCEs are printed via direct ink writing (DIW)
Ng A, Telles R, Riley KS, Lewis JA, Cook CC, Lee E, Yang S.   +6 more
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Wearable perovskite solar cells by aligned liquid crystal elastomers

Nature Communications, 2023
The bottom interface between perovskite and electron-transporting layer is critical for realizing efficient flexible perovskite solar cells. Here, the authors intercalate liquid crystal elastomer interlayer for aligned mesogenic assembly and achieve ...
Zengqi Huang, Lin Li, Tingqing Wu, Tangyue Xue, Wei Sun, Qi Pan, Huadong Wang, Hongfei Xie, Jimei Chi, Teng Han, Xiaotian Hu, Meng Su, Yiwang Chen, Yanlin Song   +13 more
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Mechanochromic Displays Based on Photoswitchable Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomers. [PDF]

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
Stimuli responsive optical materials are attractive for many areas, from healthcare to art design. However, creating intricate color‐changing patterns for visual information is still a challenge.
de Castro LDC, Lub J, Oliveira ON, Schenning APHJ.   +3 more
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Overdamping of vibration resonances by liquid crystal elastomers [PDF]

Scientific Reports
This work aims to compare the capability of vibration attenuation by standard elastomeric polymers, and by the new anomalously damping nematic liquid crystal elastomer.
Waiel Elmadih, Andrew Terentjev, Hsin-Ling Liang, Eugene Terentjev   +3 more
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When quantum dots meet blue phase liquid crystal elastomers: visualized full-color and mechanically-switchable circularly polarized luminescence

Light: Science & Applications
Polymer-based circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) materials with the advantage of diversified structure, easy fabrication, high thermal stability, and tunable properties have garnered considerable attention.
Shan Li, Yuqi Tang, Qingyan Fan, Ziyuan Li, Xinfang Zhang, Jingxia Wang, Jinbao Guo, Quan Li   +7 more
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