Soft robots that can move like living organisms and adapt to their surroundings are currently
in the limelight from fundamental studies to technological applications, due to their advances …

Smart materials, also known as intelligent materials, which are responsive to the external
stimuli including heat, moisture, stress, pH, and magnetic fields, have found extensive …

The programmable assembly of innervated LCE actuators (iLCEs) with prescribed
contractile actuation, self‐sensing, and closed loop control via core–shell 3D printing is …

Stimuli-responsive materials have been used in major applications such as sensors,
actuators, wearable devices, and biomedical devices owing to their ability to respond to …

Oriented liquid crystal networks (LCNs) can undergo reversible shape change at the
macroscopic scale upon an order–disorder phase transition of the mesogens. This property …

Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are of interest for applications such as soft robotics and
shape‐morphing devices. Among the different actuation mechanisms, light offers …

The nonradiative conversion of light to heat by plasmonic nanostructures, the so‐called
plasmonic photothermal effect, has attracted enormous attention due to their widespread …

Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are a unique class of materials which combine rubber
elasticity with the orientational order of liquid crystals. This combination can lead to materials …

Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are an attractive platform for dynamic shape‐morphing due
to their ability to rapidly undergo large deformations. While recent work has focused on …

Encoding molecular ordering during liquid crystalline network (LCN) formation endows
preprogrammed but fixed shape morphing in response to external stimuli. The incorporation …