The design and functions of liquid-crystalline (LC) polymers with classifying them into conventional-, supramolecular-, dendritic- and network-type LC polymers are described. LC polymers show new ...
An international team led by researchers at the University of Waterloo has developed material that can be flexible ‘artificial muscles’.
Liquid crystals are substances that flow like a liquid but maintain some of the ordered structure of crystals. Liquid-crystal molecules tend to be elongated and to orient in specific directions.
Key Laboratory of Opto-electronics Technology, Ministry of Education, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China ...
School of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea Advanced Institute of Nano Technology (SAINT), Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon 16419, Republic of ...