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The Effect of the Degree of Polymerization and Polymer Composition on the Temperature Responsiveness of Cholesteric Semi-Interpenetrating Networks [PDF]

, 2022
Cholesteric liquid crystal oligomers and polymers are promising materials for creating materials and devices with stimuli-responsive structural color, and the cholesteric to smectic pre-transition effect is of particular interest as it leads to a strong ...
Yue, Lansong; id_orcid, Laurens T. de Haan, Guofu Zhou, de Haan, Laurens T., Zhou, Guofu, Lansong Yue, Yue, Lansong   +6 more
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Stimuli-Responsive Crystalline Smart Materials: From Rational Design and Fabrication to Applications

, 2022
ConspectusStimuli-responsive smart materials that can undergo reversible chemical/physical changes under external stimuli such as mechanical stress, heat, light, gas, electricity, and pH, are currently attracting increasing attention in the fields of ...
Zhenjie Zhang, Zhenjie Zhang (530750), Zhifang Wang (525047), Zhifang Wang, Dong Yan (356556), Dong Yan   +5 more
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Controlling the Phase Behavior and Reflection of Main-Chain Cholesteric Oligomers Using a Smectic Monomer [PDF]

, 2022
Cholesteric liquid crystals (CLCs) are a significant class of temperature-responsive photonic materials that have the ability to selectively reflect light of a specific wavelength.
Yue, Lansong; id_orcid, Laurens T. de Haan, Guofu Zhou, Shi, Xiuyi, Xiuyi Shi, de Haan, Laurens T., Zhou, Guofu, Lansong Yue, Yue, Lansong   +8 more
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Stimuli-Responsive Shape Changing Commodity Polymer Composites and Bilayers

, 2020
Commodity polymers are produced in large volumes, providing robust mechanical properties at relatively low costs. The products made from these commodity polymers typically offer only static functionalities.
Engels, Tom; id_orcid, Debije, Michael G.; id_orcid, Engels, Tom, Debije, Michael G., Verpaalen, Rob C.P., Schenning, Albert P.H.J., Schenning, Albert P.H.J.; id_orcid   +6 more
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Multi‐Stimuli Responsive Thiazolothiazole Viologen‐Containing Poly(2‐Isopropyl‐2‐Oxazoline) and Its Multi‐Modal Thermochromism, Photochromism, Electrochromism, and Solvatofluorochromism Applications

Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2023
Smart materials are highly desirable over the recent decade due to the growing demand on complicated nature. Smart materials with stable stimuli‐responsive properties are widely applied in sensors, smart windows, displays, and chemical valves, but they ...
Pramod V. Rathod, John Marc C. Puguan, Hern Kim   +2 more
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Stimuli responsive delivery vehicles for cardiac microtissue transplantation

, 2011
Cell transplantation has emerged as the most promising therapy for restoring the scarred myocardium in the treatment of heart failure. However, clinical efficacy of (stem) cell therapies is still limited by poor retention rate and survival of injected ...
Van Lierop, S., D. J. Broer, P. Horstman, R. Penterman, E. Peeters, Penterman, R., S. Pedron, Pedron, S., Horstman, P., Broer, D. J., S. van Lierop, Peeters, E., Broer, D. J.; id_orcid   +12 more
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Programmed morphing of liquid crystal networks [PDF]

, 2014
A promising candidate for the development of stimuli-responsive morphing materials are based on liquid crystal polymer networks. These anisotropic materials will contract along the alignment director and expand perpendicular to it when subjected to an ...
Schenning, APHJ Albert, Haan, de, L.T., Broer, D.J., Schenning, A.P.H.J.; id_orcid, Broer, D.J.; id_orcid, Schenning, A.P.H.J., Broer, DJ Dirk=Dick, Haan, LT Laurens de   +7 more
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Emerging applications of stimuli-responsive polymer materials

Nature Materials, 2010
Responsive polymer materials can adapt to surrounding environments, regulate transport of ions and molecules, change wettability and adhesion of different species on external stimuli, or convert chemical and biochemical signals into optical, electrical, thermal and mechanical signals, and vice versa.
Stuart, M.A.C., Huck, W.T.S., Genzer, J., Muller, M., Muller, M., Ober, C., Stamm, M., Sukhorukov, G.B., Szleifer, I., Tsukruk, V.V., Urban, M., Winnik, F., Zauscher, S., Luzinov, I., Minko, S.   +14 more
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Reconfigurable meta-devices platform based on stimuli-responsive materials

, 2023
Metasurfaces have been playing their vital role in many fields related to light because they are capable of manipulating its characteristics. Most of the metasurfaces are based on conventional materials so they are unifunctional in the range of interest ...
Ijaz, Sumbel, Mehmood, Muhammad Qasim, Massoud, Yehia Mahmoud, Zubair, Muhammad, Shah, Aqib Raza   +4 more
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Direct Ink Writing of a Light‐Responsive Underwater Liquid Crystal Actuator with Atypical Temperature‐Dependent Shape Changes [PDF]

, 2020
In recent years, light‐responsive liquid crystal (LC) polymers have been studied as promising materials for the fabrication of untethered soft actuators. The underwater behavior of these advanced materials has, however, been rarely investigated.
Marc del Pozo, Pilz Da Cunha, Marina, Liu, Li, del Pozo Puig, Marc; id_orcid, Broer, Dirk J.; id_orcid, del Pozo Puig, Marc, Schenning, Albert P.H.J., Schenning, Albert P.H.J.; id_orcid, Li Liu, Broer, Dirk J., Dirk J. Broer, Albert P. H. J. Schenning, Marina Pilz da Cunha   +12 more
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