Light-Driven, Caterpillar-Inspired Miniature Inching Robot

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

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

Guided Folding of Nematic Liquid Crystal Elastomer Sheets into 3D via Patterned 1D Microchannels

(2016) Yu Xia 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

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

(2016) Stefano Palagi et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Photomotility of polymers

(2016) Jeong Jae Wie et al.   Nature Communications

A chaotic self-oscillating sunlight-driven polymer actuator

(2016) Kamlesh Kumar et al.   Nature Communications

Light-Driven Soft Robot Mimics Caterpillar Locomotion in Natural Scale

(2016) Mikołaj Rogóż et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Light-Fueled Microscopic Walkers

(2015) Hao Zeng et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Alignment engineering in liquid crystalline elastomers: Free-form microstructures with multiple functionalities

(2015) Hao Zeng et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

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

Bone-Free: Soft Mechanics for Adaptive Locomotion

(2014) B. A. Trimmer et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Conversion of light into macroscopic helical motion

(2014) Supitchaya Iamsaard et al.   Nature Chemistry

Recent twists in photoactuation and photoalignment control

(2014) Arri Priimagi 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

Topography from Topology: Photoinduced Surface Features Generated in Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks

(2013) Michael E. McConney et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

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

Dynamic self-stiffening in liquid crystal elastomers

(2013) Aditya Agrawal et al.   Nature Communications

Enhancement of Photogenerated Mechanical Force in Azobenzene-Functionalized Polyimides

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

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

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

Liquid Crystalline Elastomers as Actuators and Sensors

(2010) Christian Ohm et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

(2009) Taiki Yoshino et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Controlled Propulsion of Artificial Magnetic Nanostructured Propellers

(2009) Ambarish Ghosh et al.   NANO LETTERS

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

(2009) Casper L. van Oosten et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Photomobile polymer materials—various three-dimensional movements

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