Thermo- and photo-driven soft actuators based on crosslinked liquid crystalline polymers

Gu Wei¹, Wei Jia¹, Yu Yanlei^{1, 2, †,}

(a) The preparation process of the CLCP inverse opal film. (b), (c) SEM images of the CLCP inverse opal film (b) before and (c) after the irradiation of UV light. (d) Reflection spectra of the CLCP inverse opal film under UV and subsequent visible light irradiation. (e) Reflection spectra of the CLCP inverse opal film through heating and cooling process. Reprinted with permission from Ref. [73].