4.6 Article

Bio-Inspired Soft Robotics: Tunable Photo-Actuation Behavior of Azo Chromophore Containing Liquid Crystalline Elastomers

Related references

Note: Only part of the references are listed.
Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Bioinspired underwater locomotion of light-driven liquid crystal gels

Hamed Shahsavan et al.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (2020)

Review Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

A Review on Liquid Crystal Polymers in Free-Standing Reversible Shape Memory Materials

Zhibin Wen et al.

MOLECULES (2020)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

New azobenzene liquid crystal with dihydropyrazole heterocycle and photoisomerization studies

Xiaoxuan Wang et al.

ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE (2020)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Multi-level chirality in liquid crystals formed by achiral molecules

Miroslaw Salamonczyk et al.

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS (2019)

Review Materials Science, Multidisciplinary

Photomobile Polymer Materials with Complex 3D Deformation, Continuous Motions, Self-Regulation, and Enhanced Processability

Toru Ube et al.

ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS (2019)

Review Crystallography

Recent Advances in Adaptive Liquid Crystal Lenses

Jose Francisco Algorri et al.

CRYSTALS (2019)

Review Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

Photodeformable Azobenzene-Containing Liquid Crystal Polymers and Soft Actuators

Xinlei Pang et al.

ADVANCED MATERIALS (2019)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Smart Lenses with Electrically Tuneable Astigmatism

Michele Ghilardi et al.

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS (2019)

Article Materials Science, Biomaterials

Gel-based soft actuators driven by light

Matteo Mauro

JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY B (2019)

Review Materials Science, Multidisciplinary

Liquid crystalline blue phase materials with three-dimensional nanostructures

Jiajia Yang et al.

JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C (2019)

Article Crystallography

Light responsive liquid crystal soft matters: structures, properties, and applications

Dae-Yoon Kim et al.

LIQUID CRYSTALS TODAY (2019)

Article Chemistry, Physical

A solar actuator based on hydrogen-bonded azopolymers for electricity generation

Yubing Xiong et al.

JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A (2018)

Article Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

Mirror symmetry breaking in liquids and liquid crystals

Carsten Tschierske

LIQUID CRYSTALS (2018)

Article Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

Azobenzene-containing bent-core liquid crystals: an overview

Mohamed Alaasar

LIQUID CRYSTALS (2016)

Editorial Material Multidisciplinary Sciences

Bring biologists into biomimetics

Emilie Snell-Rood

NATURE (2016)

Editorial Material Multidisciplinary Sciences

How do sunflowers follow the Sun-and to what end?

Winslow R. Briggs

SCIENCE (2016)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Photomotility of polymers

Jeong Jae Wie et al.

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS (2016)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

A chaotic self-oscillating sunlight-driven polymer actuator

Kamlesh Kumar et al.

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS (2016)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

A plant tendril mimic soft actuator with phototunable bending and chiral twisting motion modes

Meng Wang et al.

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS (2016)

Article Mathematics, Applied

Uniaxial symmetry in nematic liquid crystals

Xavier Lamy

ANNALES DE L INSTITUT HENRI POINCARE-ANALYSE NON LINEAIRE (2015)

Review Chemistry, Physical

Programmable and adaptive mechanics with liquid crystal polymer networks and elastomers

Timothy J. White et al.

NATURE MATERIALS (2015)

Article Robotics

A Recipe for Soft Fluidic Elastomer Robots

Andrew D. Marchese et al.

SOFT ROBOTICS (2015)

Article Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

ortho-Fluoroazobenzenes: Visible Light Switches with Very Long-Lived Z Isomers

Christopher Knie et al.

CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL (2014)

Article Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

Conversion of light into macroscopic helical motion

Supitchaya Iamsaard et al.

NATURE CHEMISTRY (2014)

Article Chemistry, Physical

Stretchable liquid-crystal blue-phase gels

F. Castles et al.

NATURE MATERIALS (2014)

Article Chemistry, Physical

Photoactuation and thermal isomerisation mechanism of cyanoazobenzene-based liquid crystal elastomers

Jaume Garcia-Amoros et al.

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS (2014)

Article Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

Shaping Crystals with Light: Crystal-to-Crystal Isomerization and Photomechanical Effect in Fluorinated Azobenzenes

Oleksandr S. Bushuyev et al.

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (2013)

Article Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

Red-Light-Controllable Liquid-Crystal Soft Actuators via Low-Power Excited Upconversion Based on Triplet-Triplet Annihilation

Zhen Jiang et al.

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (2013)

Article Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

Actuators based on liquid crystalline elastomer materials

Hongrui Jiang et al.

NANOSCALE (2013)

Article Materials Science, Multidisciplinary

1,3,4-Oxadiazole based liquid crystals

Jie Han

JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C (2013)

Article Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

Photo-Switchable Surface Topologies in Chiral Nematic Coatings

Danqing Liu et al.

ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION (2012)

Article Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

o-Fluoroazobenzenes as Readily Synthesized Photoswitches Offering Nearly Quantitative Two-Way Isomerization with Visible Light

David Bleger et al.

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (2012)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Expansion-contraction of photoresponsive artificial muscle regulated by host-guest interactions

Yoshinori Takashima et al.

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS (2012)

Article Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

Photodriven, Flexural-Torsional Oscillation of Glassy Azobenzene Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks

Kyung Min Lee et al.

ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS (2011)

Article Chemistry, Physical

Influence of the photo-active azo cross-linker spacer on the opto-mechanics of polysiloxane elastomer actuators

Jaume Garcia-Amoros et al.

JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY (2011)

Review Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

Liquid Crystalline Elastomers as Actuators and Sensors

Christian Ohm et al.

ADVANCED MATERIALS (2010)

Article Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

Photoswitchable Supramolecular Hydrogels Formed by Cyclodextrins and Azobenzene Polymers

Shingo Tamesue et al.

ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION (2010)

Article Chemistry, Organic

Symmetry breaking and structure of a mixture of nematic liquid crystals and anisotropic nanoparticles

Marjan Krasna et al.

BEILSTEIN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY (2010)

Article Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

Nematic main-chain elastomers: Coupling and orientational behavior

Simon Krause et al.

COMPTES RENDUS CHIMIE (2009)

Article Chemistry, Physical

Photoresponsive side-chain liquid crystalline polymers with an easily cross-linkable azobenzene mesogen

Xinjuan Li et al.

JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY (2009)

Article Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

Photomobile polymer materials: Towards light-driven plastic motors

Munenori Yamada et al.

ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION (2008)

Article Chemistry, Physical

Instabilities in nematic elastomers in external electric and magnetic fields

A. M. Menzel et al.

EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL E (2008)

Article Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

Non-symmetrical luminescent 1,2,4-oxadiazole-based liquid crystals

Hugo Gallardo et al.

LIQUID CRYSTALS (2008)

Review Chemistry, Physical

Photo-mechanical effects in azobenzene-containing soft materials

Christopher J. Barrett et al.

SOFT MATTER (2007)

Review Chemistry, Physical

Selected macroscopic properties of liquid crystalline elastomers

HR Brand et al.

SOFT MATTER (2006)

Article Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

Photoinduced bending and unbending behavior of liquid-crystalline gels and elastomers

YL Yu et al.

PURE AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY (2004)

Article Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

Shape memory effect exhibited by smectic-c liquid crystalline elastomers

IA Rousseau et al.

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (2003)

Article Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

Anisotropic bending and unbending behavior of azobenzene liquid-crystalline gels by light exposure

T Ikeda et al.

ADVANCED MATERIALS (2003)

Review Materials Science, Multidisciplinary

Liquid crystalline polymers and elastomers

S Mayer et al.

CURRENT OPINION IN SOLID STATE & MATERIALS SCIENCE (2002)