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Preparation of Monodomain Liquid Crystal Elastomers and Liquid Crystal Elastomer Nanocomposites
Published on: February 6, 2016
Near-infrared-responsive gold nanorod/liquid crystalline elastomer composites prepared by sequential thiol-click
Hong Yang1, Jian-Jian Liu, Zhi-Fei Wang
1School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu Province Hi-Tech Key Laboratory for Bio-medical Research, Jiangsu Optoelectronic Functional Materials and Engineering Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China. yangh@seu.edu.cn lbp@seu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
A novel NIR-responsive GNR/LCE composite fiber material was prepared by a three-step sequential thiol-click chemistry approach. Taking advantage of GNRs' significant photo-thermal effect, a GNR/LCE composite material with a very low Au loading-level (0.09 wt%), under 808 nm NIR stimulus achieved the N-to-I transition and shrank dramatically in an ambient environment.
