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Liquid Crystal Elastomer Electric Locomotives
ACS Macro Letters, 2020In this letter, we present an electro-driven cylindrical actuator system composed of a bilayered liquid crystal elastomer/carbon black (LCE/CB) electro-driven soft actuator and a conductive track. The bilayered LCE/CB electro-driven actuator consists of an inner LCE circular band and several U-shaped CB conductive regions stuck on the outer surface of ...
Meng Wang +5 more
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Electrospun liquid crystal elastomer microfiber actuator
Science Robotics, 2021An electrospun liquid crystal elastomer microfiber actuator can generate large actuation with high power density.
Qiguang He +8 more
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Makromolekulare Chemie. Macromolecular Symposia, 1989
Articles a paraitre dans Macromol. Chem.
Heino Finkelmann +3 more
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Articles a paraitre dans Macromol. Chem.
Heino Finkelmann +3 more
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Optomechanical computing in liquid crystal elastomers
Soft Matter, 2023Demonstration of integrated combinational logic in photoresponsive liquid crystal elastomers to realize optomechanical computation in soft materials.
Haley M. Tholen +4 more
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Voxelated liquid crystal elastomers
Science, 2015Making small actuators more effective Liquid-crystal molecules orient locally in response to external fields. When long-chain liquid-crystalline molecules are crosslinked together, changes in local orientation can lead to significant volume changes. Ware et al. made efficient microactuators that can change
Taylor H. Ware +4 more
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Liquid Crystal Elastomer Balloons
Macromolecules, 2001We describe a setup for mechanical measurements of smectic liquid crystal elastomers and study two materials with different network topologies. The elastic response of macroscopically oriented smectic elastomers to a two-dimensionally isotropic stress in the film plane is measured.
Heidrun Schüring +3 more
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4D-Printable Liquid Metal–Liquid Crystal Elastomer Composites
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2020Soft actuators that undergo programmable shape change in response to a stimulus are enabling components of future soft robots and other soft machines. Strategies to power these actuators often require the incorporation of rigid, electrically conductive materials into the soft actuator, thus limiting the compliance and shape change of the material.
Cedric P. Ambulo +4 more
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2003
Abstract Liquid crystals are fluids with a directionality defined. Polymers are long molecules with a shape that can be changed. As a network, polymers form rubber - a soft solid that is locally liquid-like and capable of huge extension.
M Warner, E M Terentjev
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Abstract Liquid crystals are fluids with a directionality defined. Polymers are long molecules with a shape that can be changed. As a network, polymers form rubber - a soft solid that is locally liquid-like and capable of huge extension.
M Warner, E M Terentjev
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Shape-responsive liquid crystal elastomer bilayers
Soft Matter, 2014Monodomain liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are shape-responsive materials, but shape changes are typically limited to simple uniaxial extensions or contractions. Here, we demonstrate that complex surface patterns and shape changes, including patterned wrinkles, helical twisting, and reversible folding, can be achieved in LCE-polystyrene (PS) bilayers.
Aditya, Agrawal +4 more
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