Mouldable liquid-crystalline elastomer actuators with exchangeable covalent bonds

Nature Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 36-41

  Pei, Zhiqiang ^a   Yang, Yang ^a   Chen, Qiaomei ^a   Terentjev, Eugene M ^b   Wei, Yen ^a   Ji, Yan ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; ELASTOMERS; PLASTICS;

ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE; EXTERNAL STIMULUS; LIQUID CRYSTAL ALIGNMENT; LIQUID-CRYSTAL ELASTOMERS; LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE ELASTOMERS; MACROSCOPIC ORIENTATION; MECHANICAL ACTUATIONS; TRANSIENT NETWORK;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84890554573     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3812     Document Type: Article

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