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Microfluidic Preparation of Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Actuators
Published on: May 20, 2018
A self-healing photoinduced-deformable material fabricated by liquid crystalline elastomers using multivalent
Bin Ni1, He-Lou Xie1, Jun Tang1
1Key Laboratory of Special Functional Polymer Materials of Hunan Province, Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Materials of Colleges and Universities of Hunan Province, Key Lab of Environment-friendly Chemistry and Application in Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, Hunan Province, China. xhl20040731@163.com.
Abstract:
Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) using multivalent hydrogen bonds as cross-linkers were successfully fabricated, which showed both self-healing and photoinduced-deformable properties. More interestingly, this LCE could be readily molded into different shapes through a versatile and efficient procedure, and the fibrous and filmy samples showed different photoinduced-deformable behavior originating from the difference in molecular orientations.
