Progress in Utilizing Dynamic Bonds to Fabricate Structurally Adaptive Self‐Healing, Shape Memory, and Liquid Crystal Polymers

2021 ◽  
pp. 2100768
Author(s):  
Chun Zhang ◽  
Xili Lu ◽  
Zhanhua Wang ◽  
Hesheng Xia
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Shape Memory ◽  
Liquid Crystal Polymers ◽  
Self Healing

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.

scholarly journals Hydrogen-Bonded Supramolecular Liquid Crystal Polymers: Smart Materials with Stimuli-Responsive, Self-Healing, and Recyclable Properties

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean J. D. Lugger ◽  
Simon J. A. Houben ◽  
Yari Foelen ◽  
Michael G. Debije ◽  
Albert P. H. J. Schenning ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Smart Materials ◽  
Liquid Crystal Polymers ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Stimuli Responsive ◽  
Hydrogen Bonded

scholarly journals Composites of functional polymers: Toward physical intelligence using flexible and soft materials

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Ford ◽  
Yunsik Ohm ◽  
Keene Chin ◽  
Carmel Majidi
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Shape Memory ◽  
Shape Memory Polymers ◽  
Soft Materials ◽  
Functional Polymers ◽  
Soft Robotics ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Wearable Computers ◽  
Liquid Crystal Elastomers

AbstractMaterials that can assist with perception and responsivity of an engineered machine are said to promote physical intelligence. Physical intelligence may be important for flexible and soft materials that will be used in applications like soft robotics, wearable computers, and healthcare. These applications require stimuli responsivity, sensing, and actuation that allow a machine to perceive and react to its environment. The development of materials that exhibit some form of physical intelligence has relied on functional polymers and composites that contain these polymers. This review will focus on composites of functional polymers that display physical intelligence by assisting with perception, responsivity, or by off-loading computation. Composites of liquid crystal elastomers, shape-memory polymers, hydrogels, self-healing materials, and transient materials and their functionalities are examined with a viewpoint that considers physical intelligence. Graphic Abstract

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
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