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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas +6 more
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Computer simulations of liquid crystal polymeric networks and elastomers [PDF]
, 2011 A review of computer simulations of liquid crystal elastomers, describing mainly lattice ...
G. Skacej, ZANNONI, CLAUDIO
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Liquid Crystal-Based Organosilicone Elastomers with Supreme Mechanical Adaptability [PDF]
, 2022 Elastomers with supreme mechanical adaptability where the increasing stress under continuous deformation is significantly inhibited within a large deformation zone, are highly desired in many areas, such as artificial muscles, flexible and wearable ...
Hua Wang +7 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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Electroresponsive Ionic Liquid Crystal Elastomers
Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2019 AbstractThis paper describes the preparation, physical properties, and electric bending actuation of a new class of active materials—ionic liquid crystal elastomers (iLCEs). It is demonstrated that iLCEs can be actuated by low‐frequency AC or DC voltages of less than 1 V.
Chenrun Feng +8 more
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Biodegradable and Biocompatible Functional Polymers for Biomedical Applications
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Biodegradable and biocompatible functional polymers integrate electrical, mechanical, and stimuli‐responsive functionalities while enabling programmed degradation under physiological conditions. This review introduces recent advances in conductive, shape‐memory, self‐healing, photocurable, and adhesive polymer systems, emphasizing material design ...
Won Bae Han +5 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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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Durable quasi‐liquid polymer brush surfaces provide an anti‐scaling strategy for hypersaline brine evaporation and zero‐liquid‐discharge desalination. The smooth, liquid‐like QLS interface suppresses substrate‐side salt nucleation, promotes compact crystallization and dewetting, reduces crystal–surface contact area, and enables low‐adhesion salt ...
Mohammed Imran Khan, Bei Fan
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.The field of polymer thermoelectrics is entering a new era, featuring breakthroughs in addressing the conventional performance disparity between p‐type and n‐type polymers, pioneering doping frontiers, and sophisticated decoupling strategies. This review explores innovations in molecular design and superior stabilities, bridging the gap from ...
Suhao Wang
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Liquid crystal elastomer coatings with programmed response of surface profile
Nature Communications, 2018 Liquid crystal elastomers are anisotropic rubbers which can be actuated by an external trigger. Here the authors develop elastomer coatings with pre-patterned molecular orientation that induces deterministic topography changes in response to changes in ...
Greta Babakhanova +7 more
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