Responsive Industrial Polymers: A Marriage of Polyurethanes with Liquid Crystal Elastomers?

Lansong Yue, Xue Wan, Tankut Türel, Albert P H J Schenning, Željko Tomović, Michael G Debije

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Lansong YueStimuli-Responsive Functional Materials and Devices, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven 5600 MB, The Netherlands.

Xue WanStimuli-Responsive Functional Materials and Devices, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven 5600 MB, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-8359-7513

Tankut TürelPolymer Performance Materials Group, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven 5600 MB, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-5797-4269

Albert P H J SchenningStimuli-Responsive Functional Materials and Devices, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven 5600 MB, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-3485-1984

Željko TomovićPolymer Performance Materials Group, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven 5600 MB, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-7944-5728

Michael G DebijeStimuli-Responsive Functional Materials and Devices, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven 5600 MB, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-8844-1115

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Abstract

Responsive polymers have yet to significantly impact the marketplace. In this Perspective, we offer a glimpse of a possible future industrial-scale responsive polymer. We begin by briefly reviewing two different existing polymer materials, one with high volume, excellent processability, and commercial impact (polyurethanes), the other with stimuli responsive functional properties (liquid crystal elastomers). We explore the possibilities of combining the properties of these two disparate entities into a single material. We offer intriguing possibilities for a bulk polymer with both responsivity and processability that could compete in the market with the long-established residents and discuss some of the research roadblocks that need to be overcome to reach this lofty goal.

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industrial polymersliquid crystal elastomerspolyurethanessmart materialsstimuli-responsive actuators

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PMID40420536

DOI10.1021/acsami.5c09198

PMCPMC12147085

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