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ArticleAdvanced functional materials2023

Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Polymeric Coatings for Colorful Artificial Muscles and Motile Humidity Sensor Skin Integrated with Magnetic Composites.

Wei Feng, Aniket Pal, Tianlu Wang, Ziyu Ren, Yingbo Yan, Yanqing Lu, Huai Yang, Metin Sitti

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Article in Advanced functional materials, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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  6. An Ultra-Fast Rolling Double-Helical Robot Driven by Constant Humidity.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors.

Wei FengPhysical Intelligence Department, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany.
Aniket PalPhysical Intelligence Department, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany.
Tianlu WangPhysical Intelligence Department, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany; Institute for Biomedical Engineering, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.
Ziyu RenPhysical Intelligence Department, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany.
Yingbo YanPhysical Intelligence Department, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany; Laboratory for Multiscale Mechanics and Medical Science, SV LAB, School of Aerospace, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.
Yanqing LuNational Laboratory of Solid-state Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China.
Huai YangBeijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering & School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
Metin SittiPhysical Intelligence Department, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany; Institute for Biomedical Engineering, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland; School of Medicine and College of Engineering, Koç University, Istanbul 34450, Turkey.

Funding

European Research Council 834531
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Structural colorful cholesterics show impressive susceptibility to external stimulation, leading to applications in electro/mechano-chromic devices. However, out-of-plane actuation of structural colorful actuators based on cholesterics and the integration with other stimulation remains underdeveloped. Herein, colorful actuators and motile humidity sensors are developed using humidity-responsive cholesteric liquid crystal networks (CLCNs) and magnetic composites. The developed colorful actuator can exhibit synergistic out-of-plane shape morphing and color change in response to humidity, with CLCNs as colorful artificial muscles. Through the integration with magnetic control, the motile sensor can be navigated to open and confined spaces with the aid of friction to detect local relative humidity. The integration of multi-stimulation actuation of cholesteric magnetic actuators will expand the research frontier of structural colorful actuators and motile sensors for confined spaces.

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cholestericshumidity-responsivenessliquid crystal networksmagnetic actuationsstructural colors

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PMID37293509
PMCPMC7614630

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