… The liquid crystal elastomer films exhibit a remarkable memory effect, in that the sample … 2
weeks), but on cooling into the liquid crystal phase region, both the original director alignment …

… To our knowledge, the observed shape memory effect has never been reported before for
any known liquid crystalline elastomer, whether side-chain, main-chain, nematic, smectic, or …

… chains, rendering such systems stiff in comparison to elastomers, gels, and living tissues. In
… of liquid crystalline elastomers that exhibit both bulk and surface shape memory effects with …

… We performed molecular dynamics simulations of a liquid crystal elastomer of … Memory
effects in liquid crystalline order and in sample shape are well reproduced when the elastomer is …

The network structures of liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are crucial to impart rubbery
behavior to LCEs and enable reversible actuation. Most LCEs developed to date are covalently …

… , shape-memory polymers (SMPs) and liquid crystal elastomers (… In this sense, LCEs can
exhibit intrinsic shape-memory … to the order-disorder transition of liquid crystals. In this work, we …

… These include a temperature-induced memory effect; materials with a chiral mesophase …
However, the use of a low-molecular-weight liquid crystal to swell the elastomer and reduce its …

… the design of cholesteric liquid-crystal elastomers (CLCEs) … , mechanochromic, shape
memory, and dynamic adhesion … We systematically investigated the impact of the crosslinking …

… new liquid-crystalline elastomer (LCE) matrix that allows fully reversible changes in shape
and physical properties at the smectic-isotropic phase transition, [11] enables shape-memory […

… A comparative study of force fields for predicting shape memory properties of liquid crystalline
elastomers using molecular dynamic simulations. Journal of Applied Physics 2021, 129 (…