Liquid crystal (LC)-based sensors have been extensively applied in the detection of chemical and biological events. However, the calculation of the optical images of the LC-based sensors is usually time-consuming and also might bring some errors due ...
Functional structures with reversible shape-morphing and color-changing capabilities are promising for applications including soft robotics and biomimetic camouflage devices. Despite extensive studies, there are few reports on achieving both reversib...
Laboratory procedures are often considered so unique that automating them is not economically justified - time and resources invested in designing, building and calibrating the machines are unlikely to pay off. This is particularly true if cheap labo...
Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
36046951
The marriage of liquid crystal elastomers with dynamic covalent chemistry can be a new paradigm for the development of dynamic and intelligent polymers with versatile functionalities, which is of paramount significance for many emerging applications ...
Artificially created tactile feedback is in high demand due to fast developments in robotics, remote control in medicine, virtual reality, and smart electronics. Despite significant progress, high-quality haptic feedback devices remain challenging ma...
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
36812485
Leveraging liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) to realize scalable fabrication of high-performing fibrous artificial muscles is of particular interest because these active soft materials can provide large, reversible, programmable deformations upon envi...
Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
37129950
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are active soft matter-based materials with strong stimulus responsiveness and reversible, large-shape morphing capabilities. LCEs have demonstrated broad and growing applications in soft robotics, wearable devices, a...
Liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) is a promising candidate for actuation in light-driven soft robot applications. Due to the fact that LCE has complex hysteretic nonlinearities, which are highly dependent on the environment, modeling of actuators made o...
Plants can autonomously adjust their growth direction based on the gravitropic response to maximize energy acquisition, despite lacking nerves and muscles. Endowing soft robots with gravitropism may facilitate the development of self-regulating syste...
The challenge of rapid identification of bacteria in food and water still persists as a major health problem. To tackle this matter, we have developed a single-probe liquid crystal (LC)-based optical sensing platform for the differentiation of five c...