Voxelated liquid crystal elastomers
By T. Ware, M. McConney, J. Wie, V. Tondiglia, Timothy J. White. Science, 2015
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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Polymers and Plastics
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Citations in the corpus
- Liquid crystal elastomers: an introduction and review of emerging technologies (2018, background): “Traditionally for LCEs, alignment of the liquid-crystal mesogens and polymer network have been performed during synthesis through techniques such as slide rubbing, photoalignment, and two-stage reactions that permanently lock the alignment into the network [82,83,94,119].”
- From nanoscopic to macroscopic photo-driven motion in azobenzene-containing materials (2018, background): “Furthermore, the in-plane photo-reorientation of molecular azobenzene monolayers deposited onto a substrate has been used as aligning layer in liquid crystal (LC) cells, allowing the realization of spatially structured alignment geometries not easily accessible with conventional mechanical rubbing [”
- Untethered soft robotic matter with passive control of shape morphing and propulsion (2019, background): “However, despite their remarkable behavior, LCEs have not been widely integrated within untethered robotic structures because of fabrication challenges that relegate them to simple unidirectional actuators (40) or voxelated thin films (~50 m thick) (45, 46).”