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

By Arda Kotikian, Ryan L. Truby, J. Boley, Timothy J. White, J. Lewis. Advances in Materials, 2018

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Mechanical Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• Harnessing bistability for directional propulsion of soft, untethered robots (2018, background): “Future improvements of this technology could include the use of prestrained materials (34), reversible SMPs (37), or liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) (38, 39) in the muscles.”
• Untethered soft robotic matter with passive control of shape morphing and propulsion (2019, methodology): “After printing and cross-linking, the low TNI LCE structures became fully isotropic at 92°C, and high TNI LCE structures did so at 127°C (51, 53), enabling these structures to sequentially actuate in response to thermal stimuli.”
• Liquid crystal elastomers: an introduction and review of emerging technologies (2018, methodology): “This LCE actuator morphed out-of-plane into an array of cones upon heating, returning to its near-initial conformation upon cooling [132].”