Azobenzene-containing liquid crystalline polyester with π–π interactions: diverse thermo- and photo-responsive behaviours

Chain Folding in Main-Chain Liquid Crystalline Polyester with Strong π–π Interaction: An Efficient β-Nucleating Agent for Isotactic Polypropylene

(2017) Rong Yang et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Photoresponsive Liquid Crystalline Epoxy Networks with Shape Memory Behavior and Dynamic Ester Bonds

(2016) Yuzhan Li et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

A Highly Stretchable Polymer that Can Be Thermally Healed at Mild Temperature

(2016) Xiao-Yong Jia et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Optically and thermally activated shape memory supramolecular liquid crystalline polymers

(2016) Shangyi Fu et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Synthesis of well-defined easily crosslinkable azobenzene side-chain liquid crystalline polymers via reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer polymerization and photomechanical properties of their post-crosslinked fibers

(2015) Liangjing Fang et al.   EUROPEAN POLYMER JOURNAL

Precise Actuation of Bilayer Photomechanical Films Coated with Molecular Azobenzene Chromophores

(2015) Ziyi Liu et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Controlled Shape Memory Behavior of a Smectic Main-Chain Liquid Crystalline Elastomer

(2015) Yuzhan Li et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Metallo-, Thermo-, and Photoresponsive Shape Memory and Actuating Liquid Crystalline Elastomers

(2015) Brian T. Michal et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Perylene as an electron-rich moiety in healable, complementary π–π stacked, supramolecular polymer systems

(2015) Lewis R. Hart et al.   POLYMER

Recent progress in shape memory polymer: New behavior, enabling materials, and mechanistic understanding

(2015) Qian Zhao et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

A supramolecular assembly of cross-linked azobenzene/polymers for a high-performance light-driven actuator

(2015) Chengqun Qin et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

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

(2015) Zhibin Wen et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Designing Ternary Co-crystals with Stacking Interactions and Weak Hydrogen Bonds. 4,4′-Bis-hydroxyazobenzene

(2014) Shaunak Chakraborty et al.   CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN

Mesomorphism and Shape-Memory Behavior of Main-Chain Liquid-Crystalline Co-Elastomers: Modulation by the Chemical Composition

(2014) Alfonso Ramon García-Márquez et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Reversible actuation in main-chain liquid crystalline elastomers with varying crosslink densities

(2014) Kelly A. Burke et al.   POLYMER

Photomechanical bending of linear azobenzene polymer

(2014) Hongying Wen et al.   RSC Advances

Chain folding in main-chain liquid crystalline polyesters: from π–π stacking toward shape memory

(2014) Rong Yang et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Synthesis of Reactive Azobenzene Main-Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymers via Michael Addition Polymerization and Photomechanical Effects of Their Supramolecular Hydrogen-Bonded Fibers

(2013) Liangjing Fang et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Heterogeneity, Segmental and Hydrogen Bond Dynamics, and Aging of Supramolecular Self-Healing Rubber

(2013) Rongchun Zhang et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Mouldable liquid-crystalline elastomer actuators with exchangeable covalent bonds

(2013) Zhiqiang Pei et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Bio-Inspired Polymer Composite Actuator and Generator Driven by Water Gradients

(2013) M. Ma et al.   SCIENCE

Two-step shape recovery in heating-responsive shape memory polytetrafluoroethylene and its thermally assisted self-healing

(2013) X L Wu et al.   Smart Materials and Structures

Fluorescent Actuator Based on Microporous Conjugated Polymer with Intramolecular Stack Structure

(2012) Wang-Eun Lee et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Multivalent H-bonds for self-healing hydrogels

(2012) Jiaxi Cui et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Crosslinkable liquid crystalline copolymers with variable isotropization temperature

(2012) Kelly A. Burke et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Thermo/chemo-responsive shape memory effect in polymers: a sketch of working mechanisms, fundamentals and optimization

(2012) W. M. Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER RESEARCH

Rubber-like shape memory polymeric materials with repeatable thermal-assisted healing function

(2012) C C Wang et al.   Smart Materials and Structures

Side-Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymer Networks: Exploiting Nanoscale Smectic Polymorphism To Design Shape-Memory Polymers

(2011) Suk-kyun Ahn et al.   ACS Nano

Exploiting Microphase-Separated Morphologies of Side-Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymer Networks for Triple Shape Memory Properties

(2011) Suk-kyun Ahn et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Photodriven, Flexural-Torsional Oscillation of Glassy Azobenzene Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks

(2011) Kyung Min Lee et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Bio-inspired Design of Submerged Hydrogel-Actuated Polymer Microstructures Operating in Response to pH

(2011) Lauren D. Zarzar et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Self-Healing of Polymers via Synchronous Covalent Bond Fission/Radical Recombination

(2011) Chan′e Yuan et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Self-Healing Polymer Films Based on Thiol–Disulfide Exchange Reactions and Self-Healing Kinetics Measured Using Atomic Force Microscopy

(2011) Jeong Ae Yoon et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Stimulus-responsive shape memory materials: A review

(2011) L. Sun et al.   MATERIALS & DESIGN

Liquid Crystalline Elastomers as Actuators and Sensors

(2010) Christian Ohm et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Efficient synthesis of photoresponsive azobenzene-containing side-chain liquid crystalline polymers with high molecular weights by click chemistry

(2010) Zhibin Li et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Solvent induced shape recovery of shape memory polymer based on chemically cross-linked poly(vinyl alcohol)

(2010) Haiyan Du et al.   Soft Matter

A self-repairing, supramolecular polymer system: healability as a consequence of donor–acceptor π–π stacking interactions

(2009) Stefano Burattini et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Self-Repairing Oxetane-Substituted Chitosan Polyurethane Networks

(2009) B. Ghosh et al.   SCIENCE

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