ArticleNature communications2025
Leveraging catechol chemistry to tackle toughness-softness-work capacity tradeoff in reprogrammable liquid crystal actuators.
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- Highly Programmable Liquid Crystalline Polyurethane/MXene Hybrids for Large-Strain, High-Work-Capacity Artificial Muscles.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026Article
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Abstract
Dynamic chemistry endows liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) with reprogrammability, enabling the reversible modulation of actuation modes to adapt to diverse tasks and enhancing sustainability and lifecycle management. However, balancing toughness, softness, and work capacity remains challenging due to their inherent tradeoff, as these properties are essential for achieving high-performance and stable actuation. Here, inspired by mussel coordination chemistry, we design a macromolecular crosslinker that combines covalent crosslinking with coordination bonds to tackle this challenge. The optimized LCE achieves exceptional toughness of 28.5 MJ/m³ and low Young's modulus of 3.1 MPa, with high-temperature toughness exceeding 9.3 MJ/m³ at 90 °C (25 °C above phase transition temperature, T
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