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Mechanically Robust Photo-responsive Liquid Crystal Elastomers [PDF]
ACS OmegaXi-tong Dong +4 more
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Biaxial liquid crystal elastomers: a lattice model
The European Physical Journal E, 2008 We present a simple coarse-grained lattice model for monodomain biaxial liquid-crystal elastomers and perform large-scale Monte Carlo simulations in the proposed model system.
G. Skacej, ZANNONI, CLAUDIO, C. Zannoni
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The Role of Liquid Crystal Elastomers in Pioneering Biological Applications
CrystalsLiquid crystal elastomers have shown an attractive potential for various biological applications due to their unique combination of mechanical flexibility and responsiveness to external stimuli.
Faeze Shiralipour +5 more
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Stiffening Liquid Crystal Elastomers with Liquid Crystal Inclusions. [PDF]
Adv MaterAbstract Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are promising building blocks for soft robots, given their large, programmable, reversible, and stimuli‐responsive shape change. Enhancing LCEs’ stiffness and toughness has been a longstanding desire previously explored by reinforcing them with fillers, crystalline microdomains, and ...
Vasanji S +7 more
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Advanced Intelligent SystemsPhotoresponsive liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) plays an important role in soft robotics and other high‐tech fields. The deformation of smart materials directly affects the behavior of the actuator, which needs to be accurately controlled.
Wei Zhang +6 more
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Omnidirectional color wavelength tuning of stretchable chiral liquid crystal elastomers [PDF]
Light: Science & ApplicationsWavelength-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 +3 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. Here, we demonstrate a rapid and powerful snap-through response in liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs).
Tayler S. Hebner +4 more
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Multifunctional Ionene Liquid Crystal Elastomers. [PDF]
ACS Appl Mater InterfacesIncorporating ionic species into the backbone of liquid crystalline elastomers offers a template for tailoring thermomechanical and electromechanical properties. Thermotropic ionene liquid crystalline elastomers (iLCEs) containing imidazolium-based cationic groups are capable of work-dense (∼14 J/kg), large-strain (>30%) actuation at modest ...
Kuzel Z +9 more
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Biological liquid crystal elastomers [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 2002 Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) have recently been described as a new class of matter. Here we review the evidence for the novel conclusion that the fibrillar collagens and the dragline silks of orb web spiders belong to this remarkable class of materials. Unlike conventional rubbers, LCEs are ordered, rather than disordered, at rest.
David P, Knight, Fritz, Vollrath
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Preparation of Monodomain Liquid Crystal Elastomers and Liquid Crystal Elastomer Nanocomposites [PDF]
Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2016 LCEs are shape-responsive materials with fully reversible shape change and potential applications in medicine, tissue engineering, artificial muscles, and as soft robots. Here, we demonstrate the preparation of shape-responsive liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) and LCE nanocomposites along with characterization of their shape-responsiveness, mechanical ...
Kim, Hojin +7 more
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