Liquid Crystal Elastomer Waveguide Actuators

Programmable 3D Shape Changes in Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks of Uniaxial Orientation

(2018) Li Yu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

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

Waveguiding Microactuators Based on a Photothermally Responsive Nanocomposite Hydrogel

(2016) Ying Zhou et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Photoinduced Topographical Feature Development in Blueprinted Azobenzene-Functionalized Liquid Crystalline Elastomers

(2016) Suk-kyun Ahn et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

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

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

Thiol-acrylate main-chain liquid-crystalline elastomers with tunable thermomechanical properties and actuation strain

(2016) Mohand O. Saed et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS

Reconfiguring Nanocomposite Liquid Crystal Polymer Films with Visible Light

(2016) Adam W. Hauser et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Photothermally Reprogrammable Buckling of Nanocomposite Gel Sheets

(2015) Adam W. Hauser et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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

Deep optical penetration dynamics in photobending

(2015) Daniel Corbett et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Organic Photomechanical Materials

(2014) Taehyung Kim et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Mechanism of Photoinduced Bending and Twisting in Crystalline Microneedles and Microribbons Composed of 9-Methylanthracene

(2014) Taehyung Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Conversion of light into macroscopic helical motion

(2014) Supitchaya Iamsaard et al.   Nature Chemistry

Light-Controlled Graphene-Elastin Composite Hydrogel Actuators

(2013) Eddie Wang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Photomechanical response of disperse red 1 azobenzene dye-doped PMMA polymer fiber

(2013) Xianjun Ye et al.   OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS

Photo-origami—Bending and folding polymers with light

(2012) Jennie Ryu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Guided-wave liquid-crystal photonics

(2012) D. C. Zografopoulos et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

A Physical and Mechanical Study of Prestressed Competitive Double Network Thermoplastic Elastomers

(2011) Naveen K. Singh et al.   MACROMOLECULES

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

(2011) Christian Ohm et al.   Soft Matter

Carbon-nanotube sensitized nematic elastomer composites for IR-visible photo-actuation

(2011) Jean E. Marshall et al.   Soft Matter

Optical waveguide cantilever actuated by light

(2008) Kirill Zinoviev et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Photochemical Strategies for the Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles from Au(III) and Au(I) Using Photoinduced Free Radical Generation

(2008) M. Luisa Marin et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY