Liquid Crystal Elastomers

Liquid Crystal Elastomer is a stimuli-responsive soft material that integrates the orientational order of liquid crystals with the elastic properties of polymer networks, enabling large, reversible shape changes in response to external stimuli such as heat, light, or electric fields.

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671

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  1. HF
    Heino Finkelmann

    University of Freiburg, Germany

    80 publications · 7.9K citations

    42

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  2. EM
    Eugene M. Terentjev

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    62 publications · 5.6K citations

    41

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  3. TJ
    Timothy J. White

    Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, United States

    48 publications · 5.2K citations

    34

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  4. RZ
    Rudolf Zentel

    Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

    53 publications · 3.4K citations

    33

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  5. HY
    Hong Yang

    Southeast University, China

    38 publications · 3.3K citations

    29

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  1. Advanced Materials

    74 publications · 10.6K citations

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  2. Macromolecules

    73 publications · 4.7K citations

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  3. Advanced Functional Materials

    52 publications · 4.6K citations

    38

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  4. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

    52 publications · 4K citations

    33

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  5. Soft Matter

    52 publications · 3.2K citations

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