Steering with light: indexable photomotility in liquid crystalline polymers

Making waves in a photoactive polymer film

(2017) Anne Helene Gelebart et al.   NATURE

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

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

Photocontrol of fluid slugs in liquid crystal polymer microactuators

(2016) Jiu-an Lv et al.   NATURE

Photomotility of polymers

(2016) Jeong Jae Wie et al.   Nature Communications

Voxelated liquid crystal elastomers

(2015) Taylor H. Ware et al.   SCIENCE

Light-induced shape recovery of deformed shape memory polymer micropillar arrays with gold nanorods

(2015) Yongwei Zheng et al.   RSC Advances

Conversion of light into macroscopic helical motion

(2014) Supitchaya Iamsaard et al.   Nature Chemistry

New directions in the chemistry of shape memory polymers

(2014) Gayla J. Berg et al.   POLYMER

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

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

Contactless, photoinitiated snap-through in azobenzene-functionalized polymers

(2013) M. R. Shankar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Torsional mechanical responses in azobenzene functionalized liquid crystalline polymer networks

(2013) Jeong Jae Wie et al.   Soft Matter

Spatial and temporal control of shape memory polymers and simultaneous drug release using high intensity focused ultrasound

(2012) Guo Li et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Programming magnetic anisotropy in polymeric microactuators

(2011) Jiyun Kim et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Electromagnetic activation of a shape memory copolymer matrix incorporating ferromagnetic nanoparticles

(2011) Dan Yang et al.   POLYMER INTERNATIONAL

Fully plastic microrobots which manipulate objects using only visible light

(2010) Futao Cheng et al.   Soft Matter

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

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

Photomobile Polymer Materials: Towards Light-Driven Plastic Motors

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

Photomobile polymer materials—various three-dimensional movements

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