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ACS applied materials & interfaces
Dec 12, 2024
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...
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
Mar 6, 2024
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...
IEEE transactions on cybernetics
Jun 15, 2023
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...
Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Jun 5, 2023
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...
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Mar 6, 2023
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...
Scientific reports
Nov 14, 2022
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...
Scientific reports
Oct 20, 2022
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)
Oct 13, 2022
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 ...
Soft matter
Sep 21, 2022
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...
Analytical chemistry
Sep 2, 2022
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 ...