Better Actuation Through Chemistry: Using Surface Coatings to Create Uniform Director Fields in Nematic Liquid Crystal Elastomers

  • Yu Xia
  • , Elaine Lee
  • , Hao Hu
  • , Mohamed Amine Gharbi
  • , Daniel A. Beller
  • , Eva Kristina Fleischmann
  • , Randall D. Kamien
  • , Rudolf Zentel
  • , Shu Yang

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)12466-12472
Number of pages7
JournalACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Volume8
Issue number19
DOIs
StatePublished - May 18 2016

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Materials Science

Keywords

  • actuator
  • liquid crystal elastomer
  • monodomain
  • soft lithography
  • surface chemistry

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