Programmed liquid crystal elastomers with tunable actuation strain

Biologically Inspired Dynamic Material Systems

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Voxelated liquid crystal elastomers

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Photoactuation and thermal isomerisation mechanism of cyanoazobenzene-based liquid crystal elastomers

(2014) Jaume Garcia-Amorós et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Accordion-like Actuators of Multiple 3D Patterned Liquid Crystal Polymer Films

(2013) Laurens T. de Haan et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Topography from Topology: Photoinduced Surface Features Generated in Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks

(2013) Michael E. McConney et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Temperature-memory polymer actuators

(2013) M. Behl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Soft Elasticity in Main Chain Liquid Crystal Elastomers

(2013) Sonal Dey et al.   Crystals

Engineering of Complex Order and the Macroscopic Deformation of Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks

(2012) Laurens T. de Haan et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Blueprinting nematic glass: Systematically constructing and combining active points of curvature for emergent morphology

(2011) C. D. Modes et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Location of the Azobenzene Moieties within the Cross-Linked Liquid-Crystalline Polymers Can Dictate the Direction of Photoinduced Bending

(2011) Arri Priimagi et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Liquid Crystalline Elastomers as Actuators and Sensors

(2010) Christian Ohm et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Influence of the photo-active azo cross-linker spacer on the opto-mechanics of polysiloxane elastomer actuators

(2010) Jaume Garcia-Amorós et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Relationship between the Photomechanical Response and the Thermomechanical Properties of Azobenzene Liquid Crystalline Polymer Networks

(2010) Kyung Min Lee et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Disclination-mediated thermo-optical response in nematic glass sheets

(2010) Carl D. Modes et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

The effect of chemistry on the polymerization, thermo-mechanical properties and degradation rate of poly(β-amino ester) networks

(2010) David L. Safranski et al.   POLYMER

Shape Memory Polymer Research

(2009) Patrick T. Mather et al.   Annual Review of Materials Research

Printed artificial cilia from liquid-crystal network actuators modularly driven by light

(2009) Casper L. van Oosten et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Photomobile Polymer Materials: Towards Light-Driven Plastic Motors

(2008) Munenori Yamada et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Two-Way Reversible Shape Memory in a Semicrystalline Network

(2007) Taekwoong Chung et al.   MACROMOLECULES