Materials horizons
Liquid crystal elastomer-based reversible metamorphosis for loss-less droplet manipulation.
Adil Majeed Rather, Sreekiran Pillai, Abhigith Nair, Mohammad Javad Zarei, Young Jae Kim, Huiqin Ni, Arun Kumar Kota
Published: 202610.1039/d5mh01295c
Abstract
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are a class of smart materials that combine the anisotropic properties of liquid crystals with the elasticity of polymers, enabling reversible metamorphosis (i.e., shape transformation) in response to external stimuli…
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