AIMC Topic: Liquid Crystals

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Plasma-Induced Polymerizations: A New Synthetic Entry in Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators.

Macromolecular rapid communications
The research on soft actuators including liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) becomes more and more appealing at a time when the expansion of artificial systems is blooming. Among the various LCE actuators, the bending deformation is often in the origin ...

Machine Learning Algorithms for Liquid Crystal-Based Sensors.

ACS sensors
We present a machine learning (ML) framework to optimize the specificity and speed of liquid crystal (LC)-based chemical sensors. Specifically, we demonstrate that ML techniques can uncover valuable feature information from surface-driven LC orientat...

Light-Driven, Caterpillar-Inspired Miniature Inching Robot.

Macromolecular rapid communications
Liquid crystal elastomers are among the best candidates for artificial muscles, and the materials of choice when constructing microscale robotic systems. Recently, significant efforts are dedicated to designing stimuli-responsive actuators that can r...