Thermo- and photo-driven soft actuators based on crosslinked liquid crystalline polymers
Gu Wei1, Wei Jia1, Yu Yanlei1, 2, †,
       

(a) Schematic diagram of a photo-driven plastic motor system. Reprinted with permission from Ref. [61]. (b) Series of pictures exhibiting the rotation of the photo-driven plastic motor induced by simultaneous UV and visible light irradiation. Size of the belt: 36 mm × 5.5 mm. Reprinted with permission from Ref. [61]. (c) The photoinduced inchworm walk and the flexible robotic arm motion of the CLCP laminated film by alternate irradiation with UV and visible light. Sizes of the inchworm and the robotic arm are 11 mm × 5 mm and 34 mm × 4 mm, respectively. Reprinted with permission from Ref. [62].