Blueprinting Photothermal Shape-Morphing of Liquid Crystal Elastomers.
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DOI: 10.1002/adma.202000609
Abstract: Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are an attractive platform for dynamic shape-morphing due to their ability to rapidly undergo large deformations. While recent work has focused on patterning the director orientation field to achieve desired target… read more here.
Keywords: shape; shape morphing; blueprinting photothermal; liquid crystal ... See more keywords
Recent Advances in 4D Printing of Liquid Crystal Elastomers.
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DOI: 10.1002/adma.202209566
Abstract: Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are renowned for their large, reversible, and anisotropic shape change in response to various external stimuli due to their lightly cross‐linked polymer networks with an oriented mesogen direction, thus showing great… read more here.
Keywords: advances printing; liquid crystal; printing lces; recent advances ... See more keywords
Transient thermo-mechanical analysis for bimorph soft robot based on thermally responsive liquid crystal elastomers
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DOI: 10.1007/s10483-019-2495-8
Abstract: Thermally responsive liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) hold great promise in applications of soft robots and actuators because of the induced size and shape change with temperature. Experiments have successfully demonstrated that the LCE based bimorphs… read more here.
Keywords: thermo mechanical; bimorph; responsive liquid; liquid crystal ... See more keywords
A micromechanical-based model of stimulus responsive liquid crystal elastomers
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2021.02.023
Abstract: Abstract Stimulus responsive elastomers are advanced engineered materials that perform desired functionalities when triggered by external stimuli. Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are one important example that exhibit reversible actuation when cycled above and below their… read more here.
Keywords: micromechanical based; model; based model; liquid crystal ... See more keywords
Microscopy of Diffuse Nematic–Isotropic Transition in Main-Chain Nematic Liquid-Crystal Elastomers
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DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c00356
Abstract: Nematic–isotropic phase transition in liquid-crystal elastomers (LCEs), which drastically alters the macroscopic properties of the material, is attractive for both fundamental physics and applicati... read more here.
Keywords: nematic isotropic; microscopy; liquid crystal; crystal elastomers ... See more keywords
Tough, Shape-Changing Materials: Crystallized Liquid Crystal Elastomers
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DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b00567
Abstract: Approaches for the synthesis and processing of responsive materials that combine robust mechanical properties and the ability to undergo shape change in response to a stimulus are of intense interest. Here, we report an approach… read more here.
Keywords: shape; changing materials; liquid crystal; shape changing ... See more keywords
Programming shape morphing behavior of Liquid Crystal Elastomers via parameter-encoded 4D printing.
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DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c00027
Abstract: Currently, 4D printing programming methods are mainly structure-based, which usually requires more than one material to endow products with site-specific attributes. Here, we propose a new 4D printing programming approach that enables site-specific shape morphing… read more here.
Keywords: printing programming; shape morphing; liquid crystal; material ... See more keywords
Highly Durable and Tough Liquid Crystal Elastomers.
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DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c20707
Abstract: Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are soft materials that exhibit interesting anisotropic and actuation properties. The emerging applications of thermally actuatable LCEs demand sufficient mechanical durability under various thermomechanical cycles. Although LCEs are tough at room… read more here.
Keywords: highly durable; liquid crystal; temperature; high temperature ... See more keywords
Biocatalytic 3D Actuation in Liquid Crystal Elastomers via Enzyme Patterning.
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DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c05802
Abstract: Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are stimuli-responsive materials that undergo large shape transformations after undergoing an order-disorder transition. While shape reconfigurations in LCEs are predominantly triggered by heat, there is a considerable interest in developing highly… read more here.
Keywords: actuation; liquid crystal; crystal elastomers; shape ... See more keywords
Programmable Shape Change in Semicrystalline Liquid Crystal Elastomers.
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DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c07533
Abstract: Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are stimuli-responsive materials capable of reversible and programmable shape change in response to an environmental stimulus. Despite the highly responsive nature of these materials, the modest elastic modulus and blocking stress… read more here.
Keywords: liquid crystal; shape; crystal elastomers; semicrystalline ... See more keywords
Multimaterial Printing of Liquid Crystal Elastomers with Integrated Stretchable Electronics
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DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c23028
Abstract: Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) have grown in popularity in recent years as a stimuli-responsive material for soft actuators and shape reconfigurable structures. To make these material systems electrically responsive, they must be integrated with soft… read more here.
Keywords: printing; liquid crystal; lce; multimaterial printing ... See more keywords