Gas-pressure molding-based fabrication of smart actuators from nematic liquid-crystalline elastomer

Macromolecular Materials and Engineering

Volumn 299, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1163-1169

  Torras, Núria ^a,b   Marshall, Jean E ^d   Zinoviev, Kirill E ^b,c   Camargo, Carlos J ^b   Terentjev, Eugene M ^d   Esteve, Jaume ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c MedLumics   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Liquid crystalline elastomer; Molding; Photo thermal actuation; Pressure

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; CARBON NANOTUBES; CROSSLINKING; ELASTOMERS; MOLDING; PLASTICS; PRESSURE; SCALABILITY;

CROSS-LINKING PROCESS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; LIQUID CRYSTALLINE ELASTOMERS; MOLDING TECHNIQUES; OPTICALLY DRIVEN ACTUATOR; PHOTO-THERMAL; TECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCES; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 84908132111     PISSN: 14387492     EISSN: 14392054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mame.201300462     Document Type: Article

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