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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 +5 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 +4 more
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Shape programming of liquid crystal elastomers [PDF]
Communications ChemistryLiquid 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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Smart chiral liquid crystal elastomers: Design, properties and application [PDF]
Smart MoleculesSmart chiral liquid crystal elastomers are a class of soft photonic crystals with periodic nanostructures. There are two kinds of chiral liquid crystal elastomers with structural colors: cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers with a one‐dimensional ...
Yuan Liu +6 more
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Overdamping of vibration resonances by liquid crystal elastomers [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThis 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 +3 more
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Determination of the Elasticity Coefficients for Nematic Liquid Crystal Elastomers
Crystals, 2022 Liquid crystal elastomers are attractive materials featuring promising applications in emerging technologies, but their structure–property relationship has yet to be thoroughly explored. Some mechanical properties of these materials are the focus of this
Maksim Sargsyan +3 more
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Crystals, 2021 3D printing of novel and smart materials has received considerable attention due to its applications within biological and medical fields, mostly as they can be used to print complex architectures and particular designs.
Marianne E. Prévôt +7 more
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Degradation-Induced Actuation in Oxidation-Responsive Liquid Crystal Elastomers
Crystals, 2020 Stimuli-responsive materials that exhibit a mechanical response to specific biological conditions are of considerable interest for responsive, implantable medical devices.
Mahjabeen Javed +4 more
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Soft Elasticity in Main Chain Liquid Crystal Elastomers
Crystals, 2013 Main chain liquid crystal elastomers exhibit several interesting phenomena, such as three different regimes of elastic response, unconventional stress-strain relationship in one of these regimes, and the shape memory effect.
Anselm C. Griffin +5 more
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Photothermal-Driven Liquid Crystal Elastomers: Materials, Alignment and Applications
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 +4 more
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