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

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

(2018) Arda Kotikian et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Instant Locking of Molecular Ordering in Liquid Crystal Elastomers by Oxygen-Mediated Thiol-Acrylate Click Reactions

(2018) Yu Xia et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Light-Driven, Caterpillar-Inspired Miniature Inching Robot

(2017) Hao Zeng et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators from Anisotropic Porous Polymer Template

(2017) Qian Wang et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

(2017) Zhangxiang Cheng et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Tough, Shape-Changing Materials: Crystallized Liquid Crystal Elastomers

(2017) Hyun Kim et al.   MACROMOLECULES

High strain actuation liquid crystal elastomers via modulation of mesophase structure

(2017) Mohand O. Saed et al.   Soft Matter

Smart biomimetic micro/nanostructures based on liquid crystal elastomers and networks

(2017) Hamed Shahsavan et al.   Soft Matter

Synthesis of Elastomeric Liquid Crystalline Polymer Networks via Chain Transfer

(2017) Nicholas P. Godman et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Guided Folding of Nematic Liquid Crystal Elastomer Sheets into 3D via Patterned 1D Microchannels

(2016) Yu Xia et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Multilayer Dielectric Elastomers for Fast, Programmable Actuation without Prestretch

(2016) Mihai Duduta et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Photomobile Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers with Rearrangeable Networks

(2016) Toru Ube et al.   ADVANCED 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

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

(2016) Stefano Palagi et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

A plant tendril mimic soft actuator with phototunable bending and chiral twisting motion modes

(2016) Meng Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Shape memory polymer network with thermally distinct elasticity and plasticity

(2016) Q. Zhao et al.   Science Advances

Reverse Adhesion of a Gecko-Inspired Synthetic Adhesive Switched by an Ion-Exchange Polymer–Metal Composite Actuator

(2015) Dong-Jie Guo et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Light-Powered Tumbler Movement of Graphene Oxide/Polymer Nanocomposites

(2015) Li Yu 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

Voxelated liquid crystal elastomers

(2015) Taylor H. Ware et al.   SCIENCE

Self-assembled Dynamic 3D Fingerprints in Liquid-Crystal Coatings Towards Controllable Friction and Adhesion

(2014) Danqing Liu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks: Preparation, Properties, and Applications of Films with Patterned Molecular Alignment

(2014) Danqing Liu et al.   LANGMUIR

Conversion of light into macroscopic helical motion

(2014) Supitchaya Iamsaard et al.   Nature Chemistry

Photomechanical response of polymer-dispersed liquid crystals/graphene oxide nanocomposites

(2014) Li Yu et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

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

(2013) Laurens T. de Haan et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Reversible Bidirectional Shape-Memory Polymers

(2013) Marc Behl et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Electroactive Polymers: Developments of and Perspectives for Dielectric Elastomers

(2013) James Biggs et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Wavelength-Selective, IR Light-Driven Hinges Based on Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Composites

(2013) Ryan R. Kohlmeyer et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Anisotropic Colloidal Micromuscles from Liquid Crystal Elastomers

(2013) Jean E. Marshall et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Mouldable liquid-crystalline elastomer actuators with exchangeable covalent bonds

(2013) Zhiqiang Pei et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Temperature-memory polymer actuators

(2013) M. Behl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Soft Elasticity in Main Chain Liquid Crystal Elastomers

(2013) Sonal Dey et al.   Crystals

Direct Sun-Driven Artificial Heliotropism for Solar Energy Harvesting Based on a Photo-Thermomechanical Liquid-Crystal Elastomer Nanocomposite

(2012) Chensha Li et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Two-Stage Reactive Polymer Network Forming Systems

(2012) Devatha P. Nair et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

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

(2012) Laurens T. de Haan et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Recent advances in shape–memory polymers: Structure, mechanism, functionality, modeling and applications

(2012) Jinlian Hu et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

How the Cucumber Tendril Coils and Overwinds

(2012) S. J. Gerbode et al.   SCIENCE

Side-Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymer Networks: Exploiting Nanoscale Smectic Polymorphism To Design Shape-Memory Polymers

(2011) Suk-kyun Ahn et al.   ACS Nano

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

Soft microorigami: self-folding polymer films

(2011) Leonid Ionov   Soft Matter

Shape memory materials

(2010) W.M. Huang et al.   Materials Today

Tunable polymer multi-shape memory effect

(2010) Tao Xie   NATURE

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

(2009) Taiki Yoshino et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Feeding Mechanisms of Adult Lepidoptera: Structure, Function, and Evolution of the Mouthparts

(2009) Harald W. Krenn   Annual Review of Entomology