Recent advances in 4D printing of liquid crystal elastomers

M Chen, M Gao, L Bai, H Zheng, HJ Qi… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are renowned for their large, reversible, and anisotropic
shape change in response to various external stimuli due to their lightly cross‐linked …

Degradable biomedical elastomers: paving the future of tissue repair and regenerative medicine

B Jia, H Huang, Z Dong, X Ren, Y Lu… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Degradable biomedical elastomers (DBE), characterized by controlled biodegradability,
excellent biocompatibility, tailored elasticity, and favorable network design and …

3D‐Printed Photoresponsive Liquid Crystal Elastomer Composites for Free‐Form Actuation

Y Wang, R Yin, L Jin, M Liu, Y Gao… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

4D printing of reprogrammable liquid crystal elastomers with synergistic photochromism and photoactuation

M Chen, Y Hou, R An, HJ Qi, K Zhou - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Challenges associated with cellulose composite material: Facet engineering and prospective

T Aziz, F Haq, A Farid, M Kiran, S Faisal, A Ullah… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cellulose is the most abundant polysaccharide on earth. It has a large number of desirable
properties. Its low toxicity makes it more useful for a variety of applications. Nowadays, its …

Liquid crystal-based structural color actuators

P Zhang, LT de Haan, MG Debije… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Animals can modify their body shape and/or color for protection, camouflage and
communication. This adaptability has inspired fabrication of actuators with structural color …

Light-powered self-oscillation in liquid crystal elastomer auxetic metamaterials with large volume change

L Zhou, Y Dai, J Fang, K Li - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Self-oscillation can harvest energy directly from the environment to maintain its motion and
is characterized by its autonomy, with various promising applications in the fields of …

Self-rotation-eversion of an anisotropic-friction-surface torus

Y Qiu, K Li - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent experiments have revealed a new end-to-end ribbon spiral structure capable of
demonstrating two interconnected periodic zero-energy-mode self-rotation-eversion in …

Wearable perovskite solar cells by aligned liquid crystal elastomers

Z Huang, L Li, T Wu, T Xue, W Sun, Q Pan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
In a flexible perovskite solar cell, the bottom interface between perovskite and the electron-
transporting layer is critical in determining its efficiency and reliability. High defect …

A Dual‐Responsive Liquid Crystal Elastomer for Multi‐Level Encryption and Transient Information Display

HQ Wang, Y Tang, ZY Huang, FZ Wang… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Information security has gained increasing attention in the past decade, leading to
the development of advanced materials for anti‐counterfeiting, encryption and …