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Liquid Crystalline Vitrimers with Full or Partial Boronic‐Ester Bond Exchange

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3D Printable and Reconfigurable Liquid Crystal Elastomers with Light‐Induced Shape Memory via Dynamic Bond Exchange

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Light-Driven Electrohydrodynamic Instabilities in Liquid Crystals

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

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

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Physio- and chemo-dual crosslinking toward thermoand photo-response of azobenzene-containing liquid crystalline polyester

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Reconfigurable LC Elastomers: Using a Thermally Programmable Monodomain To Access Two-Way Free-Standing Multiple Shape Memory Polymers

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Polyurethane networks based on disulfide bonds: from tunable multi-shape memory effects to simultaneous self-healing

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A readily programmable, fully reversible shape-switching material

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4D Printed Actuators with Soft-Robotic Functions

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Humidity- and Photo-Induced Mechanical Actuation of Cross-Linked Liquid Crystal Polymers

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A chaotic self-oscillating sunlight-driven polymer actuator

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Programmable and adaptive mechanics with liquid crystal polymer networks and elastomers

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Elaborate fabrication of well-defined side-chain liquid crystalline polyurethane networks with triple-shape memory capacity

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Covalent adaptable networks: smart, reconfigurable and responsive network systems

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

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Mouldable liquid-crystalline elastomer actuators with exchangeable covalent bonds

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Photo-Switchable Surface Topologies in Chiral Nematic Coatings

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Silica-Like Malleable Materials from Permanent Organic Networks

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

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Liquid Crystalline Elastomers as Actuators and Sensors

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A Continuous Flow Synthesis of Micrometer-Sized Actuators from Liquid Crystalline Elastomers

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

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

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Liquid crystalline polymer cantilever oscillators fueled by light

(2009) Svetlana Serak et al.   Soft Matter

Photomobile Polymer Materials: Towards Light-Driven Plastic Motors

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