Issue 3, 2011
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Soft Matter

Micron-sized liquid crystalline elastomer actuators

Hong Yang,a   Gang Ye,b   Xiaogong Wangb  and  Patrick Keller*c  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

b Department of Chemical Engineering, Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

c Institut Curie, Centre de Recherche, CNRS UMR 168, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 26 rue d'Ulm, Paris Cedex 05, France
E-mail: patrick.keller@curie.fr

Abstract

Over the last few years, following a trend to miniaturization found in many fields of materials science, micron-sized liquid crystalline elastomer (LCE) actuators have been described, with the aim to apply them in such domains like responsive surfaces, microfluidic devices or microsensors. The preparations of the micron-sized LCE actuators involve plenty of cutting-edge, advanced technologies such as soft lithography, microfluidic, microprinting or photomasking. In this highlight, we describe the most striking results obtained in the domain of micron-sized LCE-based responsive systems.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0SM00734J
Article type
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Submitted
28 Jul 2010
Accepted
22 Sep 2010
First published
18 Oct 2010

Soft Matter, 2011,7, 815-823

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Micron-sized liquid crystalline elastomer actuators

H. Yang, G. Ye, X. Wang and P. Keller, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 815 DOI: 10.1039/C0SM00734J

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