Liquid crystal

Making waves in a photoactive polymer film

Anne Hélène Gelebart, Dirk J. Mulder, Michael Varga, Andrew Konya, Ghislaine Vantomme, E. W. Meijer, Robin L. B. Selinger, Dirk J. Broer

Citations: 1035 • 2017

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

Arda Kotikian, Ryan L. Truby, J. William Boley, Timothy J. White, Jennifer A. Lewis

Citations: 744 • 2018

Synthesis and alignment of liquid crystalline elastomers

Katie M. Herbert, Hayden E. Fowler, Joselle M. McCracken, Kyle R. Schlafmann, Jeremy A. Koch, Timothy J. White

Citations: 569 • 2021

Electrically controlled liquid crystal elastomer–based soft tubular actuator with multimodal actuation

Qiguang He, Zhijian Wang, Yang Wang, Adriane Fernandes Minori, Michael T. Tolley, Shengqiang Cai

Citations: 539 • 2019

Four-dimensional Printing of Liquid Crystal Elastomers

Cedric P. Ambulo, Julia J. Burroughs, Jennifer M. Boothby, Hyun Kim, M. Ravi Shankar, Taylor H. Ware

Citations: 490 • 2017

Molecularly‐Engineered, 4D‐Printed Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators

Cedric P. Ambulo, Hyun Kim, Rohit De, Vyom Raval, Kyle Searles, Danyal A. Siddiqui, John Michael O. Cue, Mihaela C. Stefan, M. Ravi Shankar, Taylor H. Ware

Citations: 361 • 2018

Bioinspired underwater locomotion of light-driven liquid crystal gels

Hamed Shahsavan, Amirreza Aghakhani, Hao Zeng, Yubing Guo, Zoey S. Davidson, Arri Priimägi, Metin Sitti

Citations: 359 • 2020

Liquid‐Crystalline Dynamic Networks Doped with Gold Nanorods Showing Enhanced Photocontrol of Actuation

Xili Lu, Hu Zhang, Guoxia Fei, Bing Yu, Xia Tong, Hesheng Xia, Yue Zhao

Citations: 358 • 2018

Mechanochromic, Shape‐Programmable and Self‐Healable Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomers Enabled by Dynamic Covalent Boronic Ester Bonds

Jiazhe Ma, Jiajia Yang, Cristian Valenzuela, Xuan Zhang, Ling Wang, Wei Feng

Citations: 347 • 2021

Bioinspired light-driven soft robots based on liquid crystal polymers

Marina Pilz da Cunha, Michael G. Debije, Albertus P. H. J. Schenning

Citations: 324 • 2020

A multifunctional shape-morphing elastomer with liquid metal inclusions

Michael J. Ford, Cedric P. Ambulo, Teresa A. Kent, Eric J. Markvicka, Chengfeng Pan, Jonathan A. Malen, Taylor H. Ware, Carmel Majidi

Citations: 321 • 2019

Biomimetic Locomotion of Electrically Powered “Janus” Soft Robots Using a Liquid Crystal Polymer

Yao‐Yu Xiao, Zhi‐Chao Jiang, Xia Tong, Yue Zhao

Citations: 294 • 2019

Repeatable and Reprogrammable Shape Morphing from Photoresponsive Gold Nanorod/Liquid Crystal Elastomers

Yuchen Wang, Alei Dang, Zhifeng Zhang, Rui Yin, Yuchong Gao, Liang Feng, Shu Yang

Citations: 269 • 2020

Digital light processing of liquid crystal elastomers for self-sensing artificial muscles

Shuo Li, Hedan Bai, Zheng Liu, Xinyue Zhang, Chuqi Huang, Lennard W. Wiesner, Meredith N. Silberstein, Robert F. Shepherd

Citations: 256 • 2021

Stimulus-driven liquid metal and liquid crystal network actuators for programmable soft robotics

Pengfei Lv, Xiao Yang, Hari Krishna Bisoyi, Hao Zeng, Xuan Zhang, Yuanhao Chen, Pan Xue, Shukuan Shi, Arri Priimägi, Ling Wang, Wei Feng, Quan Li

Citations: 248 • 2021

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

Michael E. McConney, Angel Martinez, Vincent P. Tondiglia, Kyung Min Lee, Derrick Langley, Ivan I. Smalyukh, Timothy J. White

Citations: 239 • 2013

Multi-functional liquid crystal elastomer composites

Yuchen Wang, Jiaqi Liu, Shu Yang

Citations: 228 • 2022

Monolithic shape-programmable dielectric liquid crystal elastomer actuators

Zoey S. Davidson, Hamed Shahsavan, Amirreza Aghakhani, Lindsey Hines, Yu Xia, Shu Yang, Metin Sitti

Citations: 213 • 2019

Topological structure and dynamics of three-dimensional active nematics

Citations: 207 • 2020

Ultrafast, High‐Contractile Electrothermal‐Driven Liquid Crystal Elastomer Fibers towards Artificial Muscles

Jiahao Sun, Yunpeng Wang, Wei Liao, Zhongqiang Yang

Citations: 204 • 2021