Photodeformable azobenzene‐containing liquid crystal polymers and soft actuators

X Pang, J Lv, C Zhu, L Qin, Y Yu - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Photodeformable liquid crystal polymers (LCPs) that adapt their shapes in response to light
have aroused a dramatic growth of interest in the past decades, since light as a stimulus …

Advanced functional polymer materials

K Wang, K Amin, Z An, Z Cai, H Chen… - Materials Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The research on advanced functional polymers is being driven by the fast-growing demand
for new functional materials that can be used in revolutionary technologies. Polymers can be …

Microstructured actuation of liquid crystal polymer networks

F Ge, Y Zhao - Advanced Functional Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Smart microstructured materials enable functions such as actuation, detection,
transportation, and sensing with potential applications ranging from robotics and photonics …

Soft actuators of liquid crystal polymers fueled by light from ultraviolet to near infrared

L Qin, X Liu, Y Yu - Advanced Optical Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Photodeformable liquid crystal polymers (LCPs) are a typical representative of shape‐
changing systems capable of remotely converting light energy into mechanical actuation …

Bio-inspired liquid crystal actuator materials

Y Shang, J Wang, T Ikeda, L Jiang - Journal of Materials chemistry C, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Liquid crystal elastomers, serving as a new kind of intelligent material, have demonstrated
important application in the fields of microactuators, artificial muscles, microfluid …

Design and applications of light responsive liquid crystal polymer thin films

K Mehta, AR Peeketi, L Liu, D Broer, P Onck… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Responding to external stimuli is a trait observed in all living organisms. Modern artificial
materials have adopted this profound characteristic, thereby commencing the field of stimuli …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in laser-based surface texturing for develo** antifouling surfaces: A comprehensive review

A Cholkar, R McCann, G Perumal, S Chatterjee… - Applied Surface Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Surface fouling is a major challenge faced within various engineering applications,
especially in marine, aerospace, water treatment, food and beverage, and the energy …

Inverse Opal Photonic Crystals for Real-Time Identifiable Labels via Ultraviolet and Near-Infrared Light

J Hu, S Yang, Z Chen, Y Chen… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In this work, we developed inverse opal photonic crystals (IOPCs) for real-time identifiable
labels by tuning the structure color and chemical color under ultraviolet (UV) light and near …

Light‐responsive polymer membranes

E Pantuso, G De Filpo… - Advanced Optical Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Stimuli‐responsive polymer membranes have gained particular attention for the ability to
tune opportunely their physicochemical properties under the application of an external …

Superhydrophobic hierarchical arrays fabricated by a scalable colloidal lithography approach

P Kothary, X Dou, Y Fang, Z Gu, SY Leo… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Here we report an unconventional colloidal lithography approach for fabricating a variety of
periodic polymer nanostructures with tunable geometries and hydrophobic properties. Wafer …