Durable liquid-crystalline vitrimer actuators† †Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available. See DOI: 10.1039/c8sc05358h

• Published in: Chemical science (Cambridge) Vol. 10; no. 10; pp. 3025 - 3030
• Main Authors: Chen, Qiaomei, Li, Yongsan, Yang, Yang, Xu, Yanshuang, Qian, Xiaojie, Wei, Yen, Ji, Yan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Royal Society of Chemistry 23.01.2019
• Subjects: Chemistry

A vitrimer-based LCE actuator subtly mitigates the conflict between processability and actuation durability by reducing the catalyst content. Vitrimer-based liquid-crystalline elastomers (LCEs) exhibit great advantages over the traditional LCEs due to their inherent processability to realize monodom...