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SUBMITTER: Guin T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6023890 | biostudies-other | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Guin Tyler T Settle Michael J MJ Kowalski Benjamin A BA Auguste Anesia D AD Beblo Richard V RV Reich Gregory W GW White Timothy J TJ
Nature communications 20180628 1
Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are soft, anisotropic materials that exhibit large shape transformations when subjected to various stimuli. Here we demonstrate a facile approach to enhance the out-of-plane work capacity of these materials by an order of magnitude, to nearly 20 J/kg. The enhancement in force output is enabled by the development of a room temperature polymerizable composition used both to prepare individual films, organized via directed self-assembly to retain arrays of topol ...[more]