Self-Assembled Shape-Memory Fibers of Triblock Liquid-Crystal Polymers

2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 556-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. V. Ahir ◽  
A. R. Tajbakhsh ◽  
E. M. Terentjev
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Shape Memory ◽  
Liquid Crystal Polymers ◽  
Self Assembled ◽  
Shape Memory Fibers

scholarly journals A Review on Liquid Crystal Polymers in Free-Standing Reversible Shape Memory Materials

Molecules ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 1241
Author(s):  
Zhibin Wen ◽  
Keke Yang ◽  
Jean-Marie Raquez
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Shape Memory ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Liquid Crystal Polymers ◽  
Stimuli Responsive ◽  
Sensors And Actuators ◽  
Free Standing ◽  
Disorder Phase Transition ◽  
Shape Memory Materials

Liquid crystal polymers have attracted massive attention as stimuli-responsive shape memory materials due to their unique reversible large-scale and high-speed actuations. These materials can be utilized to fabricate artificial muscles, sensors, and actuators driven by thermal order–disorder phase transition or trans–cis photoisomerization. This review collects most commonly used liquid crystal monomers and techniques to macroscopically order and align liquid crystal materials (monodomain), highlighting the unique materials on the thermal and photo responsive reversible shape memory effects. Challenges and potential future applications are also discussed.

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