Thermo- and photo-driven soft actuators based on crosslinked liquid crystalline polymers |
(a) Monomer A-6OCB and chial dopant S-811 used in the study. (b) Schematics of the director orientation of twist nematic CLCP ribbons. Handedness reversal of (c) helicoids and (d) spiral ribbons formed by the narrow and the wide CLCP films, respectively. Reprinted with permission from Ref. [ |