Shape-responsive actuator from a single layer of a liquid-crystal polymer

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 18048-18054

  Kamal, Tahseen ^a   Park, Soo Young ^a  

^a Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

phase separation; photopolymerization; reactive liquid crystal; Single layer actuator; three dimensional actuator

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; ACTUATORS; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; MORPHOLOGY; PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION;

ASYMMETRIC PHASE; CYANOBIPHENYLS; EXPOSED SURFACES; PHOTO PATTERNING; POROUS STRUCTURES; SINGLE LAYER; SPECIFIC LOCATION; THICKNESS DIRECTION;

PHASE SEPARATION;

EID: 84908191920     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am504910h     Document Type: Article

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