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

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

(a) Nematic and isotropic states of a nematic side-chain CLCP. (b) Solid model of a half of the CLCP microvalve. (c) Snapshot photos during the actuation of the CLCP microvalve before the assembly of the microchip. Reprinted with permission from Ref. [34].