Light‐Directed Liquid Manipulation in Flexible Bilayer Microtubes

High-speed transport of liquid droplets in magnetic tubular microactuators

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Photoinduced Liquefaction of Azobenzene-Containing Polymers

(2018) Philipp Weis et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Light-responsive polymers for microfluidic applications

(2018) Jeroen ter Schiphorst et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Bioinspired Universal Flexible Elastomer-Based Microchannels

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Light-induced mechanical response in crosslinked liquid-crystalline polymers with photoswitchable glass transition temperatures

(2018) Youfeng Yue et al.   Nature Communications

Sunlight-Driven Water Transport via a Reconfigurable Pump

(2018) Hongya Geng et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Making waves in a photoactive polymer film

(2017) Anne Helene Gelebart et al.   NATURE

Soft tubular microfluidics for 2D and 3D applications

(2017) Wang Xi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Photocontrol of fluid slugs in liquid crystal polymer microactuators

(2016) Jiu-an Lv et al.   NATURE

Photoswitching of glass transition temperatures of azobenzene-containing polymers induces reversible solid-to-liquid transitions

(2016) Hongwei Zhou et al.   Nature Chemistry

Photomotility of polymers

(2016) Jeong Jae Wie et al.   Nature Communications

A chaotic self-oscillating sunlight-driven polymer actuator

(2016) Kamlesh Kumar et al.   Nature Communications

A plant tendril mimic soft actuator with phototunable bending and chiral twisting motion modes

(2016) Meng Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Programmable and adaptive mechanics with liquid crystal polymer networks and elastomers

(2015) Timothy J. White et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Mail-order microfluidics: evaluation of stereolithography for the production of microfluidic devices

(2014) Anthony K. Au et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Modular microfluidic valve structures based on reversible thermoresponsive ionogel actuators

(2014) Fernando Benito-Lopez et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Conversion of light into macroscopic helical motion

(2014) Supitchaya Iamsaard et al.   Nature Chemistry

Liquid-Crystalline Ordering as a Concept in Materials Science: From Semiconductors to Stimuli-Responsive Devices

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A liquid crystal polymer based single layer chemo-responsive actuator

(2013) Tahseen Kamal et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Photothermally Sensitive Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)/Graphene Oxide Nanocomposite Hydrogels as Remote Light-Controlled Liquid Microvalves

(2012) Chun-Hua Zhu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

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

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Photo-actuation of liquids for light-driven microfluidics: state of the art and perspectives

(2012) Damien Baigl   LAB ON A CHIP

Cool, or simple and cheap? Why not both?

(2012) George M. Whitesides   LAB ON A CHIP

One-piece micropumps from liquid crystalline core-shell particles

(2012) Eva-Kristina Fleischmann et al.   Nature Communications

Liquid-Crystalline Elastomer Microvalve for Microfluidics

(2011) Antoni Sánchez-Ferrer et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

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

Photomobile polymer materials—various three-dimensional movements

(2008) Munenori Yamada et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY