Thermo- and photo-driven soft actuators based on crosslinked liquid crystalline polymers |
(a) Setup for the fabrication of patterned alignment cells and procedure for making a patterned polymer LC. (b) LC mixture used for preparing the CLCP actuators. Actuation behavior of (c) an azimuthal CLCP film and (d) a radial CLCP film upon heating with an IR light. The arrows indicate the direction of deformation. Reprinted with permission from Ref. [ |