Shining Light on Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks: Preparing, Reconfiguring, and Driving Soft Actuators

Selective Decrosslinking in Liquid Crystal Polymer Actuators for Optical Reconfiguration of Origami and Light-Fueled Locomotion

(2019) Zhi-Chao Jiang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Light or thermally-powered autonomous rolling of an elastomer rod

(2018) Chihyung Ahn et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Polydopamine-Coated Main-Chain Liquid Crystal Elastomer as Optically Driven Artificial Muscle

(2018) Hongmiao Tian et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Liquid-Crystalline Dynamic Networks Doped with Gold Nanorods Showing Enhanced Photocontrol of Actuation

(2018) Xili Lu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Multifunctional Dye-doped Liquid Crystal Polymer Actuator: Light-guided Transportation, Turning in Locomotion and Autonomous Motion

(2018) Feijie Ge et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A Wide Array of Photoinduced Motions in Molecular and Macromolecular Assemblies at Interfaces

(2018) Takahiro Seki   BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

Phototriggered Selective Actuation and Self-Oscillating in Dual-Phase Liquid Crystal Photonic Actuators

(2018) Wanyuan Wei et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Soft Materials Driven by Photothermal Effect and Their Applications

(2018) Hari Krishna Bisoyi et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Optically Driven Soft Micro Robotics

(2018) Sara Nocentini et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Preparation and assembly of five photoresponsive polymers to achieve complex light-induced shape deformations

(2018) Tianyu Fang et al.   MATERIALS & DESIGN

Dual wavelength in situ photoalignment for stable planar alignment of nematic liquid crystals

(2018) Vineet Kumar et al.   Optical Materials Express

A readily programmable, fully reversible shape-switching material

(2018) Matthew K. McBride et al.   Science Advances

A Light-Powered Ultralight Tensegrity Robot with High Deformability and Load Capacity

(2018) Zhijian Wang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Reconfigurable photoactuator through synergistic use of photochemical and photothermal effects

(2018) Markus Lahikainen et al.   Nature Communications

Liquid crystal elastomer actuators: Synthesis, alignment, and applications

(2017) Ruvini S. Kularatne et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS

Near-Infrared Chromophore Functionalized Soft Actuator with Ultrafast Photoresponsive Speed and Superior Mechanical Property

(2017) Li Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Light-Driven, Caterpillar-Inspired Miniature Inching Robot

(2017) Hao Zeng et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Photomechanical Motion of Liquid-Crystalline Fibers Bending Away from a Light Source

(2017) Zhangxiang Cheng et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Making waves in a photoactive polymer film

(2017) Anne Helene Gelebart et al.   NATURE

A four-blade light-driven plastic mill based on hydrazone liquid-crystal networks

(2017) G. Vantomme et al.   TETRAHEDRON

A light-driven artificial flytrap

(2017) Owies M. Wani et al.   Nature Communications

Shape Memory: An Efficient Method to Develop the Latent Photopatterned Morphology for Elastomer in Two/Three Dimension

(2017) Jing Bai et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Polydopamine nanoparticles doped in liquid crystal elastomers for producing dynamic 3D structures

(2017) Zhen Li et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Soft Actuators for Small-Scale Robotics

(2016) Lindsey Hines et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Photomobile Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers with Rearrangeable Networks

(2016) Toru Ube et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Light-Driven Liquid Crystalline Materials: From Photo-Induced Phase Transitions and Property Modulations to Applications

(2016) Hari Krishna Bisoyi et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Making and Remaking Dynamic 3D Structures by Shining Light on Flat Liquid Crystalline Vitrimer Films without a Mold

(2016) Yang Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Light Propagation and Photoactuation in Densely Cross-Linked Azobenzene-Functionalized Liquid-Crystalline Polymers: Contribution of Host and Concerted Isomerism

(2016) Chenzhe Li et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Reconfiguring Nanocomposite Liquid Crystal Polymer Films with Visible Light

(2016) Adam W. Hauser et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Photocontrol of fluid slugs in liquid crystal polymer microactuators

(2016) Jiu-an Lv et al.   NATURE

Structured light enables biomimetic swimming and versatile locomotion of photoresponsive soft microrobots

(2016) Stefano Palagi et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Vitrimers: permanent organic networks with glass-like fluidity

(2016) Wim Denissen et al.   Chemical Science

Photomotility of polymers

(2016) Jeong Jae Wie 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

Light-Driven Soft Robot Mimics Caterpillar Locomotion in Natural Scale

(2016) Mikołaj Rogóż et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Optical Pendulum Generator Based on Photomechanical Liquid-Crystalline Actuators

(2015) Rong Tang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

NIR–Vis–UV Light-Responsive Actuator Films of Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystal/Graphene Oxide Nanocomposites

(2015) Zhangxiang Cheng et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Light-Fueled Microscopic Walkers

(2015) Hao Zeng et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Near-infrared-responsive gold nanorod/liquid crystalline elastomer composites prepared by sequential thiol-click chemistry

(2015) Hong Yang et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Programmable and adaptive mechanics with liquid crystal polymer networks and elastomers

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

Computational rationality: A converging paradigm for intelligence in brains, minds, and machines

(2015) S. J. Gershman et al.   SCIENCE

Voxelated liquid crystal elastomers

(2015) Taylor H. Ware et al.   SCIENCE

Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks: Preparation, Properties, and Applications of Films with Patterned Molecular Alignment

(2014) Danqing Liu et al.   LANGMUIR

Polymeric Actuators

(2014) Leonid Ionov   LANGMUIR

How to control proteins with light in living systems

(2014) Arnaud Gautier et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Conversion of light into macroscopic helical motion

(2014) Supitchaya Iamsaard et al.   Nature Chemistry

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

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

Photo-responsive block copolymer micelles: design and behavior

(2013) Jean-François Gohy et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Light-triggered self-healing and shape-memory polymers

(2013) Damien Habault et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Mouldable liquid-crystalline elastomer actuators with exchangeable covalent bonds

(2013) Zhiqiang Pei et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Recent advances in photoresponsive liquid-crystalline polymers containing azobenzene chromophores

(2013) Haifeng Yu   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Direct Sun-Driven Artificial Heliotropism for Solar Energy Harvesting Based on a Photo-Thermomechanical Liquid-Crystal Elastomer Nanocomposite

(2012) Chensha Li et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Photo-stimulated self-healing polyurethane containing dihydroxyl coumarin derivatives

(2012) Jun Ling et al.   POLYMER

Photodriven, Flexural-Torsional Oscillation of Glassy Azobenzene Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks

(2011) Kyung Min Lee et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Liquid Crystalline Elastomers as Actuators and Sensors

(2010) Christian Ohm et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Dispersion and Alignment of Carbon Nanotubes in Liquid Crystalline Polymers and Elastomers

(2010) Yan Ji 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

Liquid crystalline polymer cantilever oscillators fueled by light

(2009) Svetlana Serak et al.   Soft Matter

Well-Defined Liquid-Crystalline Diblock Copolymers with an Azobenzene Moiety: Synthesis, Photoinduced Alignment and their Holographic Properties

(2008) Haifeng Yu et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Mechanism of phototaxis in marine zooplankton

(2008) Gáspár Jékely et al.   NATURE

A high frequency photodriven polymer oscillator

(2008) Timothy J. White et al.   Soft Matter