Smart soft materials are envisioned to be the building blocks of the next generation of
advanced devices and digitally augmented technologies. In this context, liquid crystals (LCs) …

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 …

Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are polymer networks exhibiting anisotropic liquid
crystallinity while maintaining elastomeric properties. Owing to diverse polymeric forms and …

The emerging field of regenerative medicine holds immense promise for addressing
complex tissue and organ regeneration challenges. Central to its advancement is the …

Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are a class of soft active materials of increasing interest,
because of their excellent actuation and optical performances. While LCEs show biomimetic …

Recent years have seen major advances in the developments of both additive
manufacturing concepts and responsive materials. When combined as 4D printing, the …

Tuning actuation temperatures of liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) achieves control of
their actuation onsets, which is generally accomplished in the synthesis step and cannot be …

This work reports a new class of liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) cross‐linked with poly
(ether‐thiourea) comprising a triethylene glycol spacer (LCE‐TUEG) wherein thiourea …

Soft actuators have received intensive attention in the fields of soft robots, sensors,
intelligent control, artificial intelligence, and visual intelligence. By combination of tensile …

Designing bioelectronic devices that seamlessly integrate with the human body is a
technological pursuit of great importance. Bioelectronic medical devices that reliably and …