Photomobile Polymer Materials with Complex 3D Deformation, Continuous Motions, Self‐Regulation, and Enhanced Processability

A Light-activated Polymer Composite Enables On-demand Photocontrol of Biomimetic Swimming Towards Transportation at Liquid/Air Interface

(2019) Haifeng Yu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Oscillating Chiral-Nematic Fingerprints Wipe Away Dust

(2018) Wei Feng et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

3D Printing of Liquid Crystal Elastomeric Actuators with Spatially Programed Nematic Order

(2018) Arda Kotikian et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

Layered liquid crystal elastomer actuators

(2018) Tyler Guin et al.   Nature Communications

Liquid crystal elastomer coatings with programmed response of surface profile

(2018) Greta Babakhanova et al.   Nature Communications

Actuating thermo- and photo-responsive tubes from liquid crystalline elastomers

(2018) Lukas B Braun et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

3D printing of soft robotic systems

(2018) T. J. Wallin et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Bioinspired microrobots

(2018) Stefano Palagi et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Photoactivated Polymeric Bilayer Actuators Fabricated via 3D Printing

(2018) Daniel E. Hagaman et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

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

(2018) Youfeng Yue et al.   Nature Communications

Photo-responsive suspended micro-membranes

(2018) Emiliano Descrovi et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

A programmable and biomimetic photo-actuator: a composite of a photo-liquefiable azobenzene derivative and commercial plastic film

(2018) Jing Hu et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

A readily programmable, fully reversible shape-switching material

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

Advances in 4D Printing: Materials and Applications

(2018) Xiao Kuang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

All-Optical Control of Shape

(2018) Brian R. Donovan et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Reconfigurable photoactuator through synergistic use of photochemical and photothermal effects

(2018) Markus Lahikainen et al.   Nature Communications

Phototunable Morpho Butterfly Microstructures Modified by Liquid Crystal Polymers

(2018) Xin Qing et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

4D Printed Actuators with Soft-Robotic Functions

(2017) María López-Valdeolivas 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

Interpenetrating polymer networks of liquid-crystalline azobenzene polymers and poly(dimethylsiloxane) as photomobile materials

(2017) T. Ube et al.   Soft Matter

A light-driven artificial flytrap

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

Programming Photoresponse in Liquid Crystal Polymer Actuators with Laser Projector

(2017) Owies M. Wani et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

New stimulus-responsive shape-memory polyurethanes capable of UV light-triggered deformation, hydrogen bond-mediated fixation, and thermal-induced recovery

(2017) Jianfeng Ban et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Azobenzene-containing liquid crystalline polyester with π–π interactions: diverse thermo- and photo-responsive behaviours

(2017) Hai-Yi Zhong et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Visible Light Responsive Liquid Crystal Polymers Containing Reactive Moieties with Good Processability

(2016) Yuyun Liu et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Photoresponsive Liquid Crystalline Epoxy Networks with Shape Memory Behavior and Dynamic Ester Bonds

(2016) Yuzhan Li et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Photoinduced Topographical Feature Development in Blueprinted Azobenzene-Functionalized Liquid Crystalline Elastomers

(2016) Suk-kyun Ahn et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Photoresponsive Fiber Array: Toward Mimicking the Collective Motion of Cilia for Transport Applications

(2016) Anne Helene Gelebart et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Photomobile Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers with Rearrangeable Networks

(2016) Toru Ube et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Fluorinated Azobenzenes for Shape-Persistent Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks

(2016) Supitchaya Iamsaard et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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

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

A chaotic self-oscillating sunlight-driven polymer actuator

(2016) Kamlesh Kumar et al.   Nature Communications

Photoinduced triple shape memory polyurethane enabled by doping with azobenzene and GO

(2016) Liming Zhou et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

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

Vinylogous Urethane Vitrimers

(2015) Wim Denissen et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Light-Fueled Microscopic Walkers

(2015) Hao Zeng et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Photomobile Polymer Materials: Photoresponsive Behavior of Cross-Linked Liquid-Crystalline Polymers with Mesomorphic Diarylethenes

(2015) Jun-ichi Mamiya et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Reprocessing and Recycling of Highly Cross-Linked Ion-Conducting Networks through Transalkylation Exchanges of C–N Bonds

(2015) Mona M. Obadia et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Precise Actuation of Bilayer Photomechanical Films Coated with Molecular Azobenzene Chromophores

(2015) Ziyi Liu et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Design, fabrication and control of soft robots

(2015) Daniela Rus et al.   NATURE

Programmable and adaptive mechanics with liquid crystal polymer networks and elastomers

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

Voxelated liquid crystal elastomers

(2015) Taylor H. Ware et al.   SCIENCE

Topology optimization for the design of folding liquid crystal elastomer actuators

(2015) Kazuko Fuchi et al.   Soft Matter

New insights into photoactivated volume generation boost surface morphing in liquid crystal coatings

(2015) Danqing Liu et al.   Nature Communications

Programmable Liquid Crystal Elastomers Prepared by Thiol–Ene Photopolymerization

(2015) Taylor H. Ware et al.   ACS Macro Letters

A reactive azobenzene liquid-crystalline block copolymer as a promising material for practical application of light-driven soft actuators

(2015) Jiu-an Lv et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Photomobile materials with interpenetrating polymer networks composed of liquid-crystalline and amorphous polymers

(2015) T. Ube et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Photostrictive materials

(2015) B. Kundys   Applied Physics Reviews

Photomobile Polymer Materials with Crosslinked Liquid-Crystalline Structures: Molecular Design, Fabrication, and Functions

(2014) Toru Ube et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Self-assembled Dynamic 3D Fingerprints in Liquid-Crystal Coatings Towards Controllable Friction and Adhesion

(2014) Danqing Liu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Photochromism of Diarylethene Molecules and Crystals: Memories, Switches, and Actuators

(2014) Masahiro Irie et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

ortho-Fluoroazobenzenes: Visible Light Switches with Very Long-LivedZIsomers

(2014) Christopher Knie et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Organic Photomechanical Materials

(2014) Taehyung Kim et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Conversion of light into macroscopic helical motion

(2014) Supitchaya Iamsaard et al.   Nature Chemistry

Development of liquid-crystalline shape-memory polyurethane composites based on polyurethane with semi-crystalline reversible phase and hexadecyloxybenzoic acid for self-healing applications

(2014) Shaojun Chen et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

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

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

Wavelength-Selective, IR Light-Driven Hinges Based on Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Composites

(2013) Ryan R. Kohlmeyer et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Thermally induced and photoinduced mechanical effects in molecular single crystals—a revival

(2013) Naba K. Nath et al.   CRYSTENGCOMM

Red-Light-Controllable Liquid-Crystal Soft Actuators via Low-Power Excited Upconversion Based on Triplet–Triplet Annihilation

(2013) Zhen Jiang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Synthesis of a New, Low-Tg Siloxane Thermoplastic Elastomer with a Functionalizable Backbone and Its Use as a Rapid, Room Temperature Photoactuator

(2013) Michael Petr et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Mouldable liquid-crystalline elastomer actuators with exchangeable covalent bonds

(2013) Zhiqiang Pei et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Opto-mechanical effect in photoactive nematic main-chain liquid-crystalline elastomers

(2013) Antoni Sánchez-Ferrer et al.   Soft Matter

Enhancement of Photogenerated Mechanical Force in Azobenzene-Functionalized Polyimides

(2012) Kyung Min Lee et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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

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

Optical manipulation of shape-morphing elastomeric liquid crystal microparticles doped with gold nanocrystals

(2012) Yaoran Sun et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Light to work transduction and shape memory in glassy, photoresponsive macromolecular systems: Trends and opportunities

(2012) Timothy J. White   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS

o-Fluoroazobenzenes as Readily Synthesized Photoswitches Offering Nearly Quantitative Two-Way Isomerization with Visible Light

(2012) David Bléger et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Metal-Catalyzed Transesterification for Healing and Assembling of Thermosets

(2012) Mathieu Capelot et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Photomechanical Response of Pre-strained Azobenzene-Functionalized Polyimide Materials

(2012) Kyung Min Lee et al.   MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS

Flexural-Torsional Photomechanical Responses in Azobenzene-Containing Crosslinked Polyimides

(2012) David H. Wang et al.   MACROMOLECULAR MATERIALS AND ENGINEERING

Photodeformable polymer gels and crosslinked liquid-crystalline polymers

(2012) Jia Wei et al.   Soft Matter

Expansion–contraction of photoresponsive artificial muscle regulated by host–guest interactions

(2012) Yoshinori Takashima et al.   Nature Communications

Photo-Switchable Surface Topologies in Chiral Nematic Coatings

(2011) Danqing Liu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Photoalignment of liquid crystals: basics and current trends

(2011) Oleg Yaroshchuk et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

NIR-Light-Induced Deformation of Cross-Linked Liquid-Crystal Polymers Using Upconversion Nanophosphors

(2011) Wei Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Photomechanical Response of Glassy Azobenzene Polyimide Networks

(2011) David H. Wang et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Photomobile polymer materials: from nano to macro

(2011) Tomiki Ikeda et al.   Materials Today

Shape selection of twist-nematic-elastomer ribbons

(2011) Y. Sawa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Silica-Like Malleable Materials from Permanent Organic Networks

(2011) D. Montarnal et al.   SCIENCE

Light-activated shape memory of glassy, azobenzene liquid crystalline polymer networks

(2011) Kyung Min Lee et al.   Soft Matter

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

Direct fabrication of photomobile polymer materials with an adhesive-free bilayer structure by electron-beam irradiation

(2010) Yumiko Naka et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

A Diarylethene Cocrystal that Converts Light into Mechanical Work

(2010) Masakazu Morimoto et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Fully plastic microrobots which manipulate objects using only visible light

(2010) Futao Cheng et al.   Soft Matter

Micron-sized liquid crystalline elastomer actuators

(2010) Hong Yang et al.   Soft Matter

Three-Dimensional Photomobility of Crosslinked Azobenzene Liquid-Crystalline Polymer Fibers

(2009) Taiki Yoshino et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Can sunlight drive the photoinduced bending of polymer films?

(2009) Ruoyuan Yin et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Effect of concentration of photoactive chromophores on photomechanical properties of crosslinked azobenzene liquid-crystalline polymers

(2009) Mizuho Kondo et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Mechanical Motion of Azobenzene Crystals upon Photoirradiation

(2009) Hideko Koshima et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Micron-Sized Main-Chain Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Actuators with Ultralarge Amplitude Contractions

(2009) Hong Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Light-responsive wires from side-on liquid crystalline azo polymers

(2009) Wei Deng et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

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

Reversible Infrared Actuation of Carbon Nanotube-Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Nanocomposites

(2008) Liqiang Yang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Photomobile Polymer Materials: Towards Light-Driven Plastic Motors

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

Photochromism and Molecular Mechanical Devices

(2008) Masahiro Irie   BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

Photomobile polymer materials—various three-dimensional movements

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

A high frequency photodriven polymer oscillator

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

Is chemical crosslinking necessary for the photoinduced bending of polymer films?

(2007) Jun-ichi Mamiya et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY