Modeling Defects, Shape Evolution, and Programmed Auto-Origami in Liquid Crystal Elastomers

Biomimetic 4D printing

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“ 2D or not 2D”: Shape-programming polymer sheets

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Programmable and adaptive mechanics with liquid crystal polymer networks and elastomers

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Light and thermal responses of liquid-crystal-network films: A finite element study

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Voxelated liquid crystal elastomers

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Iris-Like Tunable Aperture Employing Liquid-Crystal Elastomers

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Programmed morphing of liquid crystal networks

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Accordion-like Actuators of Multiple 3D Patterned Liquid Crystal Polymer Films

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

(2013) Michael E. McConney et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Shape and chirality transitions in off-axis twist nematic elastomer ribbons

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Contactless, photoinitiated snap-through in azobenzene-functionalized polymers

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Angular deficits in flat space: remotely controllable apertures in nematic solid sheets

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

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Liquid-Crystalline Elastomer Microvalve for Microfluidics

(2011) Antoni Sánchez-Ferrer et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Shape selection of twist-nematic-elastomer ribbons

(2011) Y. Sawa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Modeling elastic instabilities in nematic elastomers

(2010) Badel L. Mbanga et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Disclination-mediated thermo-optical response in nematic glass sheets

(2010) Carl D. Modes et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Gaussian curvature from flat elastica sheets

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Phase diagram of the Weeks-Chandler-Andersen potential from very low to high temperatures and pressures

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