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소프트 로보틱스
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Confinement Driven Liquid Crystalline Fibers
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Liquid crystalline polymers have been widely used for soft robotics and materials field owing to its directional expansion and contraction. In aqueous media, the liquid crystal monomers form spherical micelle to lower the surface tension. However, recent report details the molecular heterogeneity driven shape transformation of liquid crystalline micelle from spherical to branched filamentous structure. Here, we demonstrate the fibrous liquid crystalline polymer originating from the confinement effect. We deposited the liquid crystalline oligomers solution in high aspect ratio micromold. The imbalance between surface tension and elastic energy occurs the growth of the fibrous liquid crystalline polymer as the temperature decreases, resulting in liquid crystalline fiber along the high aspect ratio of micromold. We will quantify the linearity of liquid crystalline fibers via fractal dimension and lacunarity. This high aspect ratio liquid crystalline fibers have the potential to artificial human muscle-like contraction.
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1PS-251
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2005-10-14 13:30 - 15:50