Liquid Crystal Networks on Thermoplastics: Reprogrammable Photo-Responsive Actuators

A Soft Transporter Robot Fueled by Light

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Light‐Responsive Shape‐Changing Polymers

(2019) Georgi Stoychev et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Photoresponsive Actuators Built from Carbon‐Based Soft Materials

(2019) Meijia Yang et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Interpenetrating Liquid-Crystal Polyurethane/Polyacrylate Elastomer with Ultrastrong Mechanical Property

(2019) Hai-Feng Lu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Photodeformable Azobenzene‐Containing Liquid Crystal Polymers and Soft Actuators

(2019) Xinlei Pang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Reprocessable Thermoset Soft Actuators

(2019) Yang Yang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Multi-stimuli-responsive programmable biomimetic actuator

(2019) Yue Dong et al.   Nature Communications

Soft Tendril-Inspired Grippers: Shape Morphing of Programmable Polymer–Paper Bilayer Composites

(2018) Wei Wang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Soft Materials Driven by Photothermal Effect and Their Applications

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

Programmable 3D Shape Changes in Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks of Uniaxial Orientation

(2018) Li Yu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Programmable helical twisting in oriented humidity-responsive bilayer films generated by spray-coating of a chiral nematic liquid crystal

(2018) Rob C. P. Verpaalen et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

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

Reconfigurable photoactuator through synergistic use of photochemical and photothermal effects

(2018) Markus Lahikainen et al.   Nature Communications

4D Printed Actuators with Soft-Robotic Functions

(2017) María López-Valdeolivas et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Stimuli-responsive polymers and their applications

(2017) Menglian Wei et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Dual-responsive, shape-switching bilayers enabled by liquid crystal elastomers

(2017) J. M. Boothby et al.   Soft Matter

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

Biomimetic 4D printing

(2016) A. Sydney Gladman et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

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

(2016) Meng Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Thermally and Optically Fixable Shape Memory in Azobenzene-Functionalized Glassy Liquid Crystalline Polymer Networks

(2014) Jeong Jae Wie et al.   MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS

Conversion of light into macroscopic helical motion

(2014) Supitchaya Iamsaard et al.   Nature Chemistry

Humidity-Responsive Bilayer Actuators Based on a Liquid-Crystalline Polymer Network

(2013) Mian Dai et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Reversible Bidirectional Shape-Memory Polymers

(2013) Marc Behl et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Autonomous, Hands-Free Shape Memory in Glassy, Liquid Crystalline Polymer Networks

(2012) Kyung Min Lee et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

(2011) Kyung Min Lee et al.   Soft Matter