Self-sustained actuation from heat dissipation in liquid crystal polymer networks

Making waves in a photoactive polymer film

(2017) Anne Helene Gelebart et al.   NATURE

A four-blade light-driven plastic mill based on hydrazone liquid-crystal networks

(2017) G. Vantomme et al.   TETRAHEDRON

Preparation of Liquid Crystal Networks for Macroscopic Oscillatory Motion Induced by Light

(2017) Ghislaine Vantomme et al.   Jove-Journal of Visualized Experiments

Sequential self-folding of polymer sheets

(2017) Ying Liu et al.   Science Advances

Soft Actuators for Small-Scale Robotics

(2016) Lindsey Hines et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Photoactuators for Direct Optical-to-Mechanical Energy Conversion: From Nanocomponent Assembly to Macroscopic Deformation

(2016) Ying Hu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Reconfiguring Nanocomposite Liquid Crystal Polymer Films with Visible Light

(2016) Adam W. Hauser et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Photocontrol of fluid slugs in liquid crystal polymer microactuators

(2016) Jiu-an Lv et al.   NATURE

An autonomous actuator driven by fluctuations in ambient humidity

(2016) Hiroki Arazoe et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

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

(2016) Stefano Palagi et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

The nanotechnology of life-inspired systems

(2016) Bartosz A. Grzybowski et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

A chaotic self-oscillating sunlight-driven polymer actuator

(2016) Kamlesh Kumar et al.   Nature Communications

Programmable and adaptive mechanics with liquid crystal polymer networks and elastomers

(2015) Timothy J. White et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Light-induced crawling of crystals on a glass surface

(2015) Emi Uchida et al.   Nature Communications

Programming Reversibly Self-Folding Origami with Micropatterned Photo-Crosslinkable Polymer Trilayers

(2014) Jun-Hee Na et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Polymeric Actuators

(2014) Leonid Ionov   LANGMUIR

Designed Autonomic Motion in Heterogeneous Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ)-Gelatin Composites by Synchronicity

(2013) Matthew L. Smith et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Emerging applications of stimuli-responsive polymer materials

(2010) Martien A. Cohen Stuart et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Photocontrolled Translational Motion of a Microscale Solid Object on Azobenzene-Doped Liquid-Crystalline Films

(2009) Abu Kausar et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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

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

Inside Cover: Photomobile Polymer Materials: Towards Light-Driven Plastic Motors (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 27/2008)

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

A high frequency photodriven polymer oscillator

(2008) Timothy J. White et al.   Soft Matter