ArticleAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2025
Coaxial Direct Ink Writing of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomers in 3D Architectures.
Article in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Recent Advances in Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomers: Fabrication, Functionalization, and Applications.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Review
- Liquid Crystal Elastomers Filaments for Adaptive Textiles and Soft Robotics: A Processing-Centric Review.Macromolecular rapid communications · 2026Review
- Alignment switching in 3D-printed smectic liquid crystal elastomers.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Low-Temperature Visual Mechanical Sensing via Uniaxial Compression of Blue Phase Liquid Crystal Elastomer.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Article
- Freeform Manufacturing of Plant-Based Structural Colors for Scalable Photonic and Mechanochromic Devices.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Article
- Fully Aqueous and Printable Photonic Inks with Tunable Pitch and Optical Memory via Hydrogen-Bonded HPC-PVA Networks.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025Article
- Coaxial Direct Ink Writing of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomers in 3D Architectures.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers (CLCEs) hold great promise for mechanochromic applications in anti-counterfeiting, smart textiles, and soft robotics, thanks to the structural color and elasticity. While CLCEs are printed via direct ink writing (DIW) to fabricate free-standing films, complex 3D structures are not fabricated due to the opposing rheological properties necessary for cholesteric alignment and multilayer stacking. Here, 3D CLCE structures are realized by utilizing coaxial DIW to print a CLC ink within a silicone ink. By tailoring the ink compositions, and thus, the rheological properties, the cholesteric phase rapidly forms without an annealing step, while the silicone shell provides encapsulation and support to the CLCE core, allowing for layer-by-layer printing of self-supported 3D structures. As a demonstration, free-standing bistable thin-shell domes are printed. Color changes due to compressive and tensile stresses can be witnessed from the top and bottom of the inverted domes, respectively. When the domes are arranged in an array and inverted, they can snap back to their base state by uniaxial stretching, thereby functioning as mechanical sensors with memory. The additive manufacturing platform enables the rapid fabrication of 3D mechanochromic sensors thereby expanding the realm of potential applications for CLCEs.
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