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Programmable and adaptive mechanics with liquid crystal polymer networks and elastomers

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Photo deformation in azobenzene liquid-crystal network: Multiscale model prediction and its validation

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New insights into photoactivated volume generation boost surface morphing in liquid crystal coatings

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Programmable Liquid Crystal Elastomers Prepared by Thiol–Ene Photopolymerization

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Photomobile Polymer Materials with Crosslinked Liquid-Crystalline Structures: Molecular Design, Fabrication, and Functions

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Molecular Engineering of Azobenzene-Functionalized Polyimides To Enhance Both Photomechanical Work and Motion

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Theory of Light-Induced Deformation of Azobenzene Elastomers: Effects of the Liquid-Crystalline Interactions and Biaxiality

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

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Photodynamics of stress in clamped nematic elastomers

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Versatility of photoalignment techniques: From nematics to a wide range of functional materials

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Contactless, photoinitiated snap-through in azobenzene-functionalized polymers

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Opto-mechanical effect in photoactive nematic main-chain liquid-crystalline elastomers

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Torsional mechanical responses in azobenzene functionalized liquid crystalline polymer networks

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Athermal photofluidization of glasses

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Autonomous, Hands-Free Shape Memory in Glassy, Liquid Crystalline Polymer Networks

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Engineering of Complex Order and the Macroscopic Deformation of Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks

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Photochemical Mechanism and Photothermal Considerations in the Mechanical Response of Monodomain, Azobenzene-Functionalized Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks

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Azobenzene photomechanics: prospects and potential applications

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

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Photomechanical Response of Glassy Azobenzene Polyimide Networks

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Light-activated shape memory of glassy, azobenzene liquid crystalline polymer networks

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Relationship between the Photomechanical Response and the Thermomechanical Properties of Azobenzene Liquid Crystalline Polymer Networks

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Thermal and mechanical properties of new Main-Chain Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers

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

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Effect of concentration of photoactive chromophores on photomechanical properties of crosslinked azobenzene liquid-crystalline polymers

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Photomechanical properties of azobenzene liquid-crystalline elastomers

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

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Polarization-controlled, photodriven bending in monodomain liquid crystal elastomer cantilevers

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Bending Dynamics and Directionality Reversal in Liquid Crystal Network Photoactuators

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A high frequency photodriven polymer oscillator

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