Light-driven bimorph soft actuators: design, fabrication, and properties

Y Chen, J Yang, X Zhang, Y Feng, H Zeng, L Wang… - Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Soft robots that can move like living organisms and adapt to their surroundings are currently
in the limelight from fundamental studies to technological applications, due to their advances …

Light-driven liquid crystalline materials: from photo-induced phase transitions and property modulations to applications

HK Bisoyi, Q Li - Chemical Reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Light-driven phenomena both in living systems and nonliving materials have enabled truly
fascinating and incredible dynamic architectures with terrific forms and functions. Recently …

Nature‐inspired emerging chiral liquid crystal nanostructures: from molecular self‐assembly to DNA mesophase and nanocolloids

L Wang, AM Urbas, Q Li - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid crystals (LCs) are omnipresent in living matter, whose chirality is an elegant and
distinct feature in certain plant tissues, the cuticles of crabs, beetles, arthropods, and …

[HTML][HTML] Light-responsive self-strained organic semiconductor for large flexible OFET sensing array

M Li, J Zheng, X Wang, R Yu, Y Wang, Y Qiu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
With the wide application of organic semiconductors (OSCs), researchers are now grappling
with a new challenge: design and synthesize OSCs materials with specific functions to …

[HTML][HTML] Aligning liquid crystal materials through nanoparticles: A review of recent progress

J Prakash, A Kumar, S Chauhan - Liquids, 2022 - mdpi.com
Liquid crystals (LCs) have become indispensable materials in everyday life, with their
applications ranging from high-resolution television displays to being a part of sophisticated …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in multicomponent systems: Liquid crystal/nanoparticles/polymer

A Gridyakina, N Kasian, MS Chychłowski… - Materials Today …, 2023 - Elsevier
Multicomponent systems based on liquid crystals are of great interest both in the field of
scientific research and in the field of practical application. To date, one of the most studied …

Highly stretchable and tough alginate-based cyclodextrin/Azo-polyacrylamide interpenetrating network hydrogel with self-healing properties

F He, L Wang, S Yang, W Qin, Y Feng, Y Liu… - Carbohydrate …, 2021 - Elsevier
Most structural self-healing materials were developed based on either reversible
supramolecular interaction or dynamic covalent bonding. It seems a good idea to …

Frequency‐driven self‐organized helical superstructures loaded with mesogen‐grafted silica nanoparticles

KG Gutierrez‐Cuevas, L Wang, Z Zheng… - Angewandte …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Adding colloidal nanoparticles into liquid‐crystal media has become a promising pathway
either to enhance or to introduce novel properties for improved device performance. Here …

Advances in the metal nanoparticles (MNPs) doped liquid crystals and polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) composites and their applications-a review

F Ahmad, M Luqman, M Jamil - Molecular Crystals and Liquid …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
There is a great interest in doping of different types of nanoparticles (NPs) in the opto-
electronic display devices including liquid crystal displays and polymer dispersed LCs …

Self-activating liquid crystal devices for smart laser protection

L Wang - Liquid Crystals, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Lasers are now extensively used in a multitude of optical devices and photonic systems
spanning from sensing, communication, entertainment, medical surgery to military …