Smart soft materials are envisioned to be the building blocks of the next generation of
advanced devices and digitally augmented technologies. In this context, liquid crystals (LCs) …

Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are renowned for their large, reversible, and anisotropic
shape change in response to various external stimuli due to their lightly cross‐linked …

Endowing a cholesteric liquid crystal elastomer (CLCE) exhibiting a helicoidal nanostructure
with dynamically tailorable functionalities is of paramount significance for its emerging …

Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs), owing to their intrinsic anisotropic property and capability
of generating programmable complex morphologies under heat, have been widely used for …

Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are polymer networks exhibiting anisotropic liquid
crystallinity while maintaining elastomeric properties. Owing to diverse polymeric forms and …

The development of covalent adaptable liquid crystal networks (LCNs) enabled by
introducing dynamic covalent bonds has endowed liquid crystal actuators with self-healing …

Recent years have seen major advances in the developments of both additive
manufacturing concepts and responsive materials. When combined as 4D printing, the …

A liquid crystalline elastomer (LCE) network consisting of dynamic covalent bonds (DCBs) is
referred as a LCE vitrimer. The mesogen alignment and the network topology can be …

Based on liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) materials, hierarchically structured soft actuators
can meet some requirements for “human‐friendly” working mode and execute complex tasks …

As a promising actuating material, liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) has been intensively
explored in building diverse active structures and devices. Recently, direct ink writing …