Liquid Crystal Elastomers with Mechanical Properties of a Muscle

By D. L. Thomsen, P. Keller, J. Naciri, R. Pink, H. Jeon, D. Shenoy, B. Ratna. 2001

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

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In Biomedical Engineering

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• Liquid crystal elastomers: an introduction and review of emerging technologies (2018, methodology): “Radical polymerization involves using an initiator to start the polymerization process (Figure 5) [4,6,45].”
• Artificial muscle technology: physical principles and naval prospects (2004, background): “plied voltage can be reduced, a limitation that might be overTABLE IV LIQUID CRYSTAL ELASTOMERS [29], [32], [34], [36], [37]”
• Increasing the performance of dielectric elastomer actuators: A review from the materials perspective (2015, background): “The application of a thermal [48, 49] or an electrical [50, 51] external stimulus produces the loss of the nematic order, allowing the elastomeric backbone to relax to its”