Remote light exposure of photoresponsive liquid crystalline polymers has drawn great
attention over the last years as an attractive strategy to generate mechanical work with high …

Recent years have seen major advances in the additive manufacturing of stimuli‐responsive
materials, also known as “4D printing,” among which liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) play …

Direct ink writing of liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) offers a new opportunity to program
geometries for a wide variety of shape transformation modes toward applications such as …

Although liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) have demonstrated various applications in
artificial muscles and soft robotics, their inherent flexibility and orientation‐dependent forces …

Envisioning robotic devices with functionality resulting from processing rather than
exclusively material composition, multimodal responsive devices produced from a single …

Artificial muscles based on stimuli-responsive polymers usually exhibit mechanical
compliance, versatility, and high power-to-weight ratio, showing great promise to potentially …

Arbitrary shape (re) programming is appealing for fabricating untethered shape‐morphing
photo‐actuators with intricate configurations and features. We present re‐programmable …

Stimulus-responsive materials provide an attractive platform to design and build
distinguished soft robots that can dynamically change their shapes to adapt for a variety of …

Abstract 4D printing of liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) via direct ink writing has opened up
great opportunities to create stimuli‐responsive actuations for applications such as soft …

Soft and mechanically responsive actuators hold the promise to revolutionize the design and
manufacturing of devices in the areas of microfluidics, soft robotics and biomedical …