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Photomobile Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers with Rearrangeable Networks

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Journal Adv Mater
Date 2016 Jul 16
PMID 27418031
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Abstract

Incorporation of dynamic covalent bonds into photomobile liquid-crystalline elastomers with a polysiloxane backbone enables the alignment of mesogens and macroscopic shapes to be controlled through the rearrangement of the network topology, even after the formation of chemically crosslinked networks. The reshaped samples show various sophisticated 3D motions upon irradiation with UV and visible light, depending on their initial shapes.

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