This review demonstrates that 4D printing constitutes a key technology to enable significant
advances in microrobotics. Unlike traditional microfabrication techniques, 4D printing …

Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are a class of programmable polymer materials that can
deform reversibly under diverse stimuli such as light, heat, electric field, and magnetic field …

The ability of cells to organize into tissues with proper structure and function requires the
effective coordination of proliferation, migration, polarization, and differentiation across …

A family of acrylate-based isotropic Liquid Crystal Elastomers (LCEs) exhibit stress-and
strain-optic coefficients orders of magnitude greater than conventional polymeric and …

We derive a Föppl-von Kármán-type constitutive model for solid liquid crystalline plates
where the nematic director may or may not rotate freely relative to the elastic network. To …

Synthetic materials that are auxetic (negative Poisson's ratio) at a molecular level have long
been sought after. An auxetic liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) was reported recently, but the …

Continuum models describing ideal nematic solids are widely used in theoretical studies of
liquid crystal elastomers. However, experiments on nematic elastomers show a type of …

In this work, a two-component acrylate liquid crystal elastomer, with varying composition and
templating phase, is synthesized in the laboratory and investigated in parallel using …

Stability is an important and fruitful avenue of research for liquid crystal elastomers. At
constant temperature, upon stretching, the homogeneous state of a nematic body becomes …

Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are polymeric materials that are proposed for a range of
applications. However, to reach their full potential, it is desirable to have as much flexibility …