Processing Strategies of Liquid Crystal Elastomers and Their Composites for High-performance Smart Actuators
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Stimuli-responsive smart materials are of significant interest in the field of soft robotics, artificial muscles, and wearable or implantable devices. Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are well-known for programmable, reversible, and large strain shape changes in response to external stimuli. The salient features of LCEs, including programmable molecular anisotropy and shape morphing, can be controlled through a careful selection of synthetic pathway and processing technique. Here, we describe various processing approaches of LCEs and their composites for programmable high-performance soft actuators.