Add to ORKGWe present a versatile method to prepare oriented fibres with a defined thickness from main-chain liquid crystalline elastomers. A microfluidic setup is utilized to inject a solution of a photo-crosslinkable smectic A main-chain polymer into a co-flowing stream of silicone oil. Diffusion of the solvent into the oil yields solid polymer filaments that are crosslinked in a continuous way by UV-irradiation. The obtained fibres are highly oriented and show a reversible and significant contraction during the liquid crystal%27s phase transition
Encapsulation of the nematic liquid crystal <i>N</i>-(4-methoxybenzylidene)-4-butylaniline (MBBA) in...
A method for fabricating long, soft, and reversibly actuatable liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) fibers...
A recently introduced new branch of applied polymer science is the production of highly functional a...
We present a versatile method to prepare oriented fibres with a defined thickness from main-chain li...
We present a robust method to prepare thin oriented nematic liquid crystalline elastomer-polymer (LC...
Liquid crystals encapsulated in fibers have a wide variety of applications in sensing. In order to p...
We describe two new techniques of preparing liquid crystal samples and discuss their potential for n...
peer reviewedWhile coaxial polymer sheath–liquid crystal core fibres attract interest for fundamenta...
Recently, significant advances have been achieved to precisely program the response of liquid crysta...
With the relatively new technique of coaxial electrospinning, composite fibres of poly(vinylpyrrolid...
In aqueous media, liquid crystalline droplets typically form spherical shapes in order to minimize s...
Responsive functional composite fibre mats that are mechanically stable and impervious to water expo...
Hydrodynamic focusing in microfluidic channels is used to produce highly uniform, shaped polymer fib...
The large, directional stimuli-response of aligned liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) could enable...
A thiol-yne click chemistry reaction is presented, for the first time, to prepare liquid crystalline...
Encapsulation of the nematic liquid crystal <i>N</i>-(4-methoxybenzylidene)-4-butylaniline (MBBA) in...
A method for fabricating long, soft, and reversibly actuatable liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) fibers...
A recently introduced new branch of applied polymer science is the production of highly functional a...
We present a versatile method to prepare oriented fibres with a defined thickness from main-chain li...
We present a robust method to prepare thin oriented nematic liquid crystalline elastomer-polymer (LC...
Liquid crystals encapsulated in fibers have a wide variety of applications in sensing. In order to p...
We describe two new techniques of preparing liquid crystal samples and discuss their potential for n...
peer reviewedWhile coaxial polymer sheath–liquid crystal core fibres attract interest for fundamenta...
Recently, significant advances have been achieved to precisely program the response of liquid crysta...
With the relatively new technique of coaxial electrospinning, composite fibres of poly(vinylpyrrolid...
In aqueous media, liquid crystalline droplets typically form spherical shapes in order to minimize s...
Responsive functional composite fibre mats that are mechanically stable and impervious to water expo...
Hydrodynamic focusing in microfluidic channels is used to produce highly uniform, shaped polymer fib...
The large, directional stimuli-response of aligned liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) could enable...
A thiol-yne click chemistry reaction is presented, for the first time, to prepare liquid crystalline...
Encapsulation of the nematic liquid crystal <i>N</i>-(4-methoxybenzylidene)-4-butylaniline (MBBA) in...
A method for fabricating long, soft, and reversibly actuatable liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) fibers...
A recently introduced new branch of applied polymer science is the production of highly functional a...