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

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

(a) The microfluidic set-up used to prepare the CLCP shell particles filled with a glycerol core. Reprinted with permission from Ref. [28]. (b) Several CLCP particles fabricated by microfluidic setup in the LC phase and in the isotropic phase. Reprinted with permission from Ref. [26]. (c) Core-shell CLCP particles work as micropumps. Reprinted with permission from Ref. [28].