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Enabling liquid crystal elastomers with tunable actuation temperature
Nature Communications, 2023 Liquid crystalline elastomers are regarded as a kind of desirable soft actuator material for soft robotics and other high-tech areas. The isotropization temperature (Ti) plays an important role as it determines the actuation temperature and other ...
Yanjin Yao +6 more
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Liquid Crystal Elastomer Waveguide Actuators
Advanced Materials, 2019 AbstractWhile most photomechanical materials developed to date have relied on free‐space illumination to drive actuation, this strategy fails when direct line‐of‐site access is precluded. In this study, waveguided light is harnessed by liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) nanocomposites to drive actuation.
Alexa S. Kuenstler +2 more
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2H NMR studies of liquid crystal elastomers: Macroscopic vs. molecular properties [PDF]
, 2012 ► Order parameters by 2H NMR of 2H-labelled liquid crystal elastomers and 2H-labelled probes in LCEs. ► Crosslinking density vs. thermodynamic features of the paranematic–nematic transition.
DOMENICI, VALENTINA, Valentina Domenici
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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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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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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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Tunable Electromechanical Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators [PDF]
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2020 Liquid crystal elastomers (LCE) are soft materials which anisotropically shape morph in response to external stimuli. Herein, a method to produce large‐area carbon nanotube–LCE nanocomposite films with exceptional electrostrictive properties is examined.
Tyler Guin +8 more
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Additive Manufacturing of Alumina‐Reinforced Elastomers
Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Vat‐photopolymerized elastomers reinforced with platelet‐shaped alumina exhibited preferential orientation, reduced porosity, and significantly enhanced mechanical performance. A 3 wt% platelet loading increased tensile strength from 12.4 to 45.7 MPa, highlighting the critical role of filler morphology in elastomeric VPP composites.
Majid Barzegar Keyvani +6 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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On the Hydrodynamics of Hyperbolic Liquid Crystal Elastomers
SIAM Journal on Mathematical AnalysisMinor corrections; 42 ...
Xiaonan Hao, Jiaxi Huang, Ning Jiang
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