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Liquid Crystal Elastomers: 30 Years After. [PDF]
MacromoleculesThis is a Review that attempts to cast a look at the whole history of liquid crystal elastomers and the evolution of this field from its inception to the current state of the art.
Terentjev EM.
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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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Determination of the Elasticity Coefficients for Nematic Liquid Crystal Elastomers [PDF]
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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Synchrotron Microbeam Diffraction Studies on the Alignment within 3D-Printed Smectic-A Liquid Crystal Elastomer Filaments during Extrusion [PDF]
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 [PDF]
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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Instabilities in liquid crystal elastomers [PDF]
MRS Bulletin, 2021 AbstractStability is an important and fruitful avenue of research for liquid crystal elastomers. At constant temperature, upon stretching, the homogeneous state of a nematic body becomes unstable, and alternating shear stripes develop at very low stress.
L. Angela Mihai, Alain Goriely
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Halogen-Bonded Liquid Crystal Elastomers as Initiator-Free Photochemical Actuators. [PDF]
Adv MaterPhotochemically driven liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) actuators require precise arrangement and sufficiently high concentration of photoswitchable molecules for effective actuation.
Guo H +5 more
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Soft Elasticity in Main Chain Liquid Crystal Elastomers [PDF]
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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Leaping liquid crystal elastomers
Science Advances, 2023 Snap-through mechanisms are pervasive in everyday life in biological systems, engineered devices, and consumer products. Snap-through transitions can be realized in responsive materials via stimuli-induced mechanical instability.
Tayler S. Hebner +4 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 +4 more
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