ArticleACS macro letters2022
Direct Ink Writing of Recyclable Supramolecular Soft Actuators.
Article in ACS macro letters, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- 4D Printable Formulations of Mixed Low and High Molecular Weight Liquid Crystalline Units: A Versatile Route to Functional Soft Actuators.Macromolecular rapid communications · 2026Article
- Responsive Industrial Polymers: A Marriage of Polyurethanes with Liquid Crystal Elastomers?ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2025Review
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- 3D Printable Modular Soft Elastomers from Physically Cross-linked Homogeneous Associative Polymers.ACS polymers Au · 2024Article
- Fully (Re)configurable Interactive Material through a Switchable Photothermal Charge Transfer Complex Gated by a Supramolecular Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuator.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2023Article
- Four-Dimensional Printing of Temperature-Responsive Liquid Crystal Elastomers with Programmable Shape-Changing Behavior.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Direct ink writing (DIW) of liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) has rapidly paved its way into the field of soft actuators and other stimuli-responsive devices. However, currently used LCE systems for DIW require postprinting (photo)polymerization, thereby forming a covalent network, making the process time-consuming and the material nonrecyclable. In this work, a DIW approach is developed for printing a supramolecular poly(thio)urethane LCE to overcome these drawbacks of permanent cross-linking. The thermo-reversible nature of the supramolecular cross-links enables the interplay between melt-processable behavior required for extrusion and formation of the network to fix the alignment. After printing, the actuators demonstrated a reversible contraction of 12.7% or bending and curling motions when printed on a passive substrate. The thermoplastic ink enables recyclability, as shown by cutting and printing the actuators five times. However, the actuation performance diminishes. This work highlights the potential of supramolecular LCE inks for DIW soft circular actuators and other devices.
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