Influence of a Crosslinker Containing an Azo Group on the Actuation Properties of a Photoactuating LCE System

Light-Mediated Manufacture and Manipulation of Actuators

(2016) Dong-Dong Han et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Near-Infrared Responsive Liquid Crystalline Elastomers Containing Photothermal Conjugated Polymers

(2016) Wei Liu et al.   MACROMOLECULES

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

(2016) Stefano Palagi et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

A chaotic self-oscillating sunlight-driven polymer actuator

(2016) Kamlesh Kumar et al.   Nature Communications

Peculiar behaviour of optical polarization gratings in light-sensitive liquid crystalline elastomers

(2016) Matej Prijatelj et al.   Optical Materials Express

Microfluidic synthesis of micrometer-sized photoresponsive actuators based on liquid crystalline elastomers

(2016) L. B. Braun et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Co-flow microfluidic synthesis of liquid crystalline actuating Janus particles

(2016) T. Hessberger et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Reversible and Rapid Laser Actuation of Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Micropillars with Inclusion of Gold Nanoparticles

(2015) Xiyang Liu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Light-Fueled Microscopic Walkers

(2015) Hao Zeng et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

Smart artificial muscle actuators: Liquid crystal elastomers with integrated temperature feedback

(2015) S. Petsch et al.   SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL

Light-induced deformation of polymer networks containing azobenzene chromophores and liquid crystalline mesogens

(2015) Tatiana Petrova et al.   Soft Matter

Programmable Liquid Crystal Elastomers Prepared by Thiol–Ene Photopolymerization

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

Light-Controlled Actuation, Transduction, and Modulation of Magnetic Strength in Polymer Nanocomposites

(2014) Johannes M. Haberl et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Iris-Like Tunable Aperture Employing Liquid-Crystal Elastomers

(2014) Stefan Schuhladen et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

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

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

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

Multi-stimuli responsive carbon nanotube–shape memory polymeric composites

(2014) Hongsheng Luo et al.   MATERIALS LETTERS

Photoactuation and thermal isomerisation mechanism of cyanoazobenzene-based liquid crystal elastomers

(2014) Jaume Garcia-Amorós et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

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

(2013) Eva-Kristina Fleischmann et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Broadband reflection of polymer-stabilized chiral nematic liquid crystals induced by a chiral azobenzene compound

(2013) Xingwu Chen et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Light-Induced Refractive Index Modulation in Photoactive Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers

(2013) Blaž Tašič et al.   MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS

Actuators based on liquid crystalline elastomer materials

(2013) Hongrui Jiang et al.   Nanoscale

A cellulose liquid crystal motor: a steam engine of the second kind

(2013) Yong Geng et al.   Scientific Reports

One-piece micropumps from liquid crystalline core-shell particles

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

Nanoparticle-Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Composites

(2012) Yan Ji et al.   Polymers

Liquid-Crystalline Elastomer Microvalve for Microfluidics

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

Opto-Mechanical Effect in Photoactive Nematic Side-Chain Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers

(2011) Antoni Sánchez-Ferrer et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Preparation of actuating fibres of oriented main-chain liquid crystalline elastomers by a wetspinning process

(2011) Christian Ohm et al.   Soft Matter

Liquid Crystalline Elastomers as Actuators and Sensors

(2010) Christian Ohm et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Influence of the photo-active azo cross-linker spacer on the opto-mechanics of polysiloxane elastomer actuators

(2010) Jaume Garcia-Amorós et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

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

(2009) Christian Ohm et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Photo-Crosslinked Side-Chain Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers for Microsystems

(2009) Antoni Sánchez-Ferrer et al.   MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS

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

Magnetoactive liquid crystal elastomer nanocomposites

(2008) Andreas Kaiser et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Bending Dynamics and Directionality Reversal in Liquid Crystal Network Photoactuators

(2008) Casper L. van Oosten et al.   MACROMOLECULES