Dirk J. Broer

Making waves in a photoactive polymer film

Anne Hélène Gelebart, Dirk J. Mulder, Michael Varga et al. · Nature · 2017 · 1K citations · Full text

Materials Science, Engineering, Polymer Science +6

Printed artificial cilia from liquid-crystal network actuators modularly driven by light

Casper L. van Oosten, Cees W. M. Bastiaansen, Dirk J. Broer · Nature Materials · 2009 · 956 citations

Materials Science, Engineering, Soft Robotics +11

Nanomotor rotates microscale objects

Rienk Eelkema, Michael M. Pollard, Javier Vicario et al. · Nature · 2006 · 859 citations · Full text

Nanorobotics, Engineering, Soft Robotics +6

Wide-band reflective polarizers from cholesteric polymer networks with a pitch gradient

Dirk J. Broer, Johan Lub, G. N. Mol · Nature · 1995 · 716 citations

Materials Science, Wide-band Reflective Polarizers, Electromagnetic Metamaterials +11

In‐situ photopolymerization of oriented liquid‐crystalline acrylates, 3. Oriented polymer networks from a mesogenic diacrylate

Dirk J. Broer, J. Boven, Grietje N. Mol et al. · Die Makromolekulare Chemie · 1989 · 456 citations

Polymerization Temperature, Macromolecular Chemistry, Engineering +22