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SUBMITTER: McBride MK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6108565 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
McBride Matthew K MK Martinez Alina M AM Cox Lewis L Alim Marvin M Childress Kimberly K Beiswinger Michael M Podgorski Maciej M Worrell Brady T BT Killgore Jason J Bowman Christopher N CN
Science advances 20180824 8
Liquid crystalline (LC) elastomers (LCEs) enable large-scale reversible shape changes in polymeric materials; however, they require intensive, irreversible programming approaches in order to facilitate controllable actuation. We have implemented photoinduced dynamic covalent chemistry (DCC) that chemically anneals the LCE toward an applied equilibrium only when and where the light-activated DCC is on. By using light as the stimulus that enables programming, the dynamic bond exchange is orthogona ...[more]