Reducing the weight and profile of machinery and robotics is currently a prime challenge for
materials scientists and engineers alike. Solving this challenge could lead to an …

Comprehensive Summary Crosslinked liquid crystal polymers (CLCPs) are smart materials
that combine the anisotropy of liquid crystals (LCs) with the elasticity of rubber. When …

Liquid crystalline polymer (LCP) is a promising candidate in the design and fabrication of
intelligent soft materials due to the combination of programmable anisotropy and elasticity …

Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are anisotropic soft materials capable of large
dimensional changes when subjected to a stimulus. The magnitude and directionality of the …

With the increased environmental awareness, the search for environmentally friendlier heat-
management techniques has been the topic of many scientific studies. The caloric materials …

Side-chain liquid crystal elastomers (SC-LCEs) have been designed by using a new smectic
crosslinker. Two types of monodomain films were prepared based on polysiloxane chains …

We carry out systematic experimental and theoretical study of elastocaloric (eC) response in
nematic liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs), which possess the elastic properties of elastomers …

A coarse-grained molecular Monte Carlo simulation of the barocaloric effect in a model Gay-
Berne liquid crystal is presented, following the so-called indirect approach wherein the …

Deformations of amorphous polymer networks prepared with significant concentrations of
liquid crystalline mesogens have been recently reported to undergo mechanotropic phase …

In this work thermomechanical properties of main-chain liquid crystal elastomers (MC-LCEs)
with different degrees of crosslinking were investigated, and gradual loss of …