Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Holographic Whole-Object Photopolymerization Preserving Director Alignment in Liquid Crystalline Actuators.
Lovish Gulati, Junhee Lee, Reza Norouzikudiani, Jianfeng Li, Carlos Sánchez Somolinos, Antonio DeSimone, Kai Melde, Alexander Song, Peer Fischer
Published: 202610.1002/adma.202519970
Abstract
Liquid crystalline (LC) crosslinked polymeric structures are promising for soft robotic applications, as their actuation profile is intrinsically encoded and results from the structure's shape and the LC molecular orientation (director). However, it…
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