Selective Decrosslinking in Liquid Crystal Polymer Actuators for Optical Reconfiguration of Origami and Light-Fueled Locomotion

Light or thermally-powered autonomous rolling of an elastomer rod

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Polydopamine-Coated Main-Chain Liquid Crystal Elastomer as Optically Driven Artificial Muscle

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3D Printing of Liquid Crystal Elastomeric Actuators with Spatially Programed Nematic Order

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Liquid-Crystalline Dynamic Networks Doped with Gold Nanorods Showing Enhanced Photocontrol of Actuation

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Multifunctional Dye-doped Liquid Crystal Polymer Actuator: Light-guided Transportation, Turning in Locomotion and Autonomous Motion

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A Wide Array of Photoinduced Motions in Molecular and Macromolecular Assemblies at Interfaces

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Surface Aligned Main-Chain Liquid Crystalline Elastomers: Tailored Properties by the Choice of Amine Chain Extenders

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Anthracene-containing polymers toward high-end applications

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Reconfigurable LC Elastomers: Using a Thermally Programmable Monodomain To Access Two-Way Free-Standing Multiple Shape Memory Polymers

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Reconfigurable photoactuator through synergistic use of photochemical and photothermal effects

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Near-Infrared Chromophore Functionalized Soft Actuator with Ultrafast Photoresponsive Speed and Superior Mechanical Property

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Light-Switchable Azobenzene-Containing Macromolecules: From UV to Near Infrared

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Photomechanical Motion of Liquid-Crystalline Fibers Bending Away from a Light Source

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Multi-Responsive Wrinkling Patterns by the Photoswitchable Supramolecular Network

(2017) Fudong Li et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Design of Poly(l-lactide)–Poly(ethylene glycol) Copolymer with Light-Induced Shape-Memory Effect Triggered by Pendant Anthracene Groups

(2016) Hui Xie et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Photomobile Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers with Rearrangeable Networks

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High Photothermal Activity within Neutral Nickel Dithiolene Complexes Derived from Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids

(2016) Kenny Mebrouk et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Making and Remaking Dynamic 3D Structures by Shining Light on Flat Liquid Crystalline Vitrimer Films without a Mold

(2016) Yang Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Photocontrol of fluid slugs in liquid crystal polymer microactuators

(2016) Jiu-an Lv et al.   NATURE

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

(2016) Stefano Palagi et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Photomotility of polymers

(2016) Jeong Jae Wie et al.   Nature Communications

Optical Pendulum Generator Based on Photomechanical Liquid-Crystalline Actuators

(2015) Rong Tang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Programmable and adaptive mechanics with liquid crystal polymer networks and elastomers

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

Mouldable liquid-crystalline elastomer actuators with exchangeable covalent bonds

(2013) Zhiqiang Pei et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Photomobile Polymer Materials: Towards Light-Driven Plastic Motors

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