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Elasticity of polydomain liquid crystal elastomers [PDF]
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2012 We model polydomain liquid-crystal elastomers by extending the neo-classical soft and semi-soft free energies used successfully to describe monodomain samples. We show that there is a significant difference between polydomains cross-linked in homogeneous high symmetry states then cooled to low symmetry polydomain states and those cross-linked directly ...
Biggins, J. S. +2 more
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Polymer-dispersed liquid crystal elastomers as moldable shape-programmable material
Nature Communications, 2023 Development of Soft shape-memory materials is often limited to the synthesis of two-dimensional specimens and rely on bending mechanisms and scaffolding topology to perform three-dimensional morphing.
Matej Bobnar +8 more
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Thiol–acrylate side-chain liquid crystal elastomers
Soft Matter, 2022 The Michael addition ‘click’ chemistry was used to graft acrylate-terminated mesogenic groups onto the polysiloxane backbone polymer chain with thiol functional groups, with a constant 15% fraction of diacrylate reacting monomers as crosslinkers.
Guo, Hongye +2 more
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Impact damping and vibration attenuation in nematic liquid crystal elastomers
Nature Communications, 2021 Nematic liquid crystal elastomers (LCE). exhibit unique mechanical properties such as large loss behaviour, which makes these materials interesting for damping applications.
Mohand O. Saed +5 more
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4D Printing of Freestanding Liquid Crystal Elastomers via Hybrid Additive Manufacturing
Advances in Materials, 2022 Liquid crystal elastomers (LCE) are appealing candidates among active materials for 4D printing, due to their reversible, programmable and rapid actuation capabilities. Recent progress has been made on direct ink writing (DIW) or Digital Light Processing
Xirui Peng +8 more
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Dynamic self-stiffening in liquid crystal elastomers [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2013 Biological tissues have the remarkable ability to remodel and repair in response to disease, injury and mechanical stresses. Synthetic materials lack the complexity of biological tissues, and man-made materials that respond to external stresses through a permanent increase in stiffness are uncommon. Here we report that polydomain nematic liquid crystal
Agrawal, Aditya +7 more
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Soft elasticity optimises dissipation in 3D-printed liquid crystal elastomers
Nature Communications, 2021 Soft-elasticity in monodomain liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) is promising for impact-absorbing applications but due to the lack of synthetic procedures which give monodomain devices of sufficient size, impact studies on LCEs have not been performed ...
D. Mistry +9 more
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Environmentally Stable Chiral-Nematic Liquid-Crystal Elastomers with Mechano-Optical Properties
Applied Sciences, 2021 Chiral-nematic liquid crystal (N* LC) elastomers exhibit mechano-optical responsive behavior. However, practical sensor applications have been limited by the intrinsic sensitivity of N* LC elastomers to environmental conditions, such as temperature ...
Kyosun Ku +6 more
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ACS NanoLiquid crystal elastomers with near-ambient temperature-responsiveness (NAT-LCEs) have been extensively studied for building biocompatible, low-power consumption devices and robotics.
Dongxiao Li +11 more
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3D printing of liquid crystal elastomers-based actuator for an inchworm-inspired crawling soft robot
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) have shown great potential as soft actuating materials in soft robots, with large actuation strain and fast response speed.
Xiaowen Song +5 more
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