Electrospun Composite Liquid Crystal Elastomer Fibers

Liquid crystals in micron-scale droplets, shells and fibers

(2017) Martin Urbanski et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Liquid crystal elastomer actuators: Synthesis, alignment, and applications

(2017) Ruvini S. Kularatne et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS

Making waves in a photoactive polymer film

(2017) Anne Helene Gelebart et al.   NATURE

Beam steering by liquid crystal elastomer fibres

(2017) S. Nocentini et al.   Soft Matter

A light-driven artificial flytrap

(2017) Owies M. Wani et al.   Nature Communications

Photoresponsive Fiber Array: Toward Mimicking the Collective Motion of Cilia for Transport Applications

(2016) Anne Helene Gelebart et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Light-Driven Liquid Crystalline Materials: From Photo-Induced Phase Transitions and Property Modulations to Applications

(2016) Hari Krishna Bisoyi et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Morphology Tuning of Electrospun Liquid Crystal/Polymer Fibers

(2016) Junren Wang et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Electrospinning of reactive mesogens

(2016) Jian Yao et al.   EUROPEAN POLYMER JOURNAL

Non-electronic gas sensors from electrospun mats of liquid crystal core fibres for detecting volatile organic compounds at room temperature

(2016) Catherine G. Reyes et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Effects of Structural Variations on the Cellular Response and Mechanical Properties of Biocompatible, Biodegradable, and Porous Smectic Liquid Crystal Elastomers

(2016) Anshul Sharma et al.   MACROMOLECULAR BIOSCIENCE

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

(2016) Stefano Palagi et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Airbrush Formation of Liquid Crystal/Polymer Fibers

(2015) Junren Wang et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Programmable and adaptive mechanics with liquid crystal polymer networks and elastomers

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

Multifunctional responsive fibers produced by dual liquid crystal core electrospinning

(2015) YooMee Kye et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Liquid-Crystalline Elastomer Fibers Prepared in a Microfluidic Device

(2014) Eva-Kristina Fleischmann et al.   MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS

Morphology and Core Continuity of Liquid-Crystal-Functionalized, Coaxially Electrospun Fiber Mats Tuned via the Polymer Sheath Solution

(2013) Giusy Scalia et al.   MACROMOLECULAR MATERIALS AND ENGINEERING

NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

(2012) Caroline A Schneider et al.   NATURE METHODS

Preparation of poly(γ-benzyl-L-glutamate) nanofibers by electrospinning from isotropic and biphasic liquid crystal solutions

(2012) Kazuma Tsuboi et al.   POLYMER JOURNAL

Electrospinning of a blend of a liquid crystalline polymer with poly(ethylene oxide): Vectran nanofiber mats and their mechanical properties

(2012) T. Medeiros Araujo et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

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

(2011) Christian Ohm et al.   Soft Matter

Mechanical and optical properties of continuously spun fibres of a main-chain smectic A elastomer

(2011) Ralf Stannarius et al.   Soft Matter

Liquid Crystalline Elastomers as Actuators and Sensors

(2010) Christian Ohm et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Plasticization and antiplasticization of polymer melts diluted by low molar mass species

(2010) Evgeny B. Stukalin et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Control over Internal Structure of Liquid Crystal Polymer Nanofibers by Electrospinning

(2010) Keita Nakashima et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Self-assembled, optically responsive nematic liquid crystal/polymer core-shell fibers: Formation and characterization

(2010) Ebru A. Buyuktanir et al.   POLYMER

Helical Twisting of Electrospun Liquid Crystalline Cellulose Micro- and Nanofibers

(2008) João P. Canejo et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Coaxial electrospinning of microfibres with liquid crystal in the core

(2008) Jan P. F. Lagerwall et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Liquid crystal fibers produced by using electrospinning technique

(2008) Yiguang Wu et al.   COLLOID AND POLYMER SCIENCE