Mechanochromic, Shape‐Programmable and Self‐Healable Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomers Enabled by Dynamic Covalent Boronic Ester Bonds

• Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition Vol. 61; no. 9; pp. e202116219 - n/a
• Main Authors: Ma, Jiazhe, Yang, Yanzhao, Valenzuela, Cristian, Zhang, Xuan, Wang, Ling, Feng, Wei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Germany Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 21.02.2022
• Edition: International ed. in English
• Subjects: Actuators; Adaptive optics; Adaptive systems; Bonding; Camouflage; Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomer; Cholesteric liquid crystals; Circular polarization; Dynamic Covalent Bond; Elastomers; Mechanochromism; Optics; Polymers; Reprogrammable; Robotics; Self-Healing; Visible spectrum; Mechanochromism; Dynamic Covalent Bond; Self-Healing; Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomer; Reprogrammable

Endowing a cholesteric liquid crystal elastomer (CLCE) exhibiting a helicoidal nanostructure with dynamically tailorable functionalities is of paramount significance for its emerging applications in diverse fields such as adaptive optics and soft robotics. Here, a mechanochromic, shape‐programmable...