Homeotropically-aligned main-chain and side-on liquid crystalline elastomer films with high anisotropic thermal conductivities
作者:Meng Wang、Jun Wang、Hong Yang、Bao-Ping Lin、Er-Qiang Chen、Patrick Keller、Xue-Qin Zhang、Ying Sun
DOI:10.1039/c6cc00081a
日期:——
Homeotropically-aligned main-chain and side-on liquid3crystalline elastomer films are reported. Their thermal conductivities in the normal direction are both dramatically higher than those along the horizontal direction.
报道了具有同向主链和侧向液晶弹性体薄膜的热导率。它们在垂直方向的热导率比水平方向显著高。
Nematic elastomer fiber with mechanical properties of a muscle
申请人:Naciri Jawad
公开号:US20060041061A1
公开(公告)日:2006-02-23
A method of making a liquid crystalline fiber is disclosed. A copolymer having a liquid crystalline side group and a crosslinking side group is crosslinked. A fiber of the crosslinking copolymer is drawn before the crosslinking reaction is complete.
Contraction of side-on nematic liquid crystalline elastomers micropillars: Influence of molecular parameters
作者:Renbo Wei、Xiufu Hua
DOI:10.1080/15421406.2016.1262710
日期:2017.1.22
We investigated the structure-property relationship of nematic liquid crystalline elastomer (LCE) actuators obtained from a series of nematic side-on monomers. The liquid crystalline acrylate monomers were designed and synthesized with different tail lengths. Combining a soft lithography technique with photo-polymerization/photo-crosslinking of aligned nematic liquid crystalline monomers and crosslinkers, nematic LCE micropillars were obtained, based on the new monomers. Through microscopic observation, influence of some structural parameters on the thermo-mechanical behavior of the micropillars was investigated. The thermo-mechanical behavior of the LCEs showed a close correlation with to the tail length of the monomer and the spacer length of the crosslinker.
Effect of molecular parameters on thermomechanical behavior of side-on nematic liquid crystal elastomers
We investigated the structure-property relationship of liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) obtained from a series of nematic side-on monomers. A new synthetic strategy was developed to obtain the acrylate monomers (n-ADBB), which gave us the opportunity to easily modify the spacer lengths of the monomers. Through magnetic field alignment, well-defined LCE micropillars were fabricated from the monomers by a method combining soft lithography and photopolymerization/photocrosslinking of the monomers and a crosslinker. The influence of structural parameters on the thermomechanical deformation of the microstructures was studied through microscopic observations. The study quantitatively revealed the correlation of thermomechanical behavior of the microstructured LCEs with the crosslinking density and length of the flexible spacer linking the mesogenic core to the backbone. With a proper control of the structural parameters, optimized performances such as large reversible contraction, good elasticity and mechanical robustness were demonstrated for this type of LCEs. (c) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
NEMATIC ELASTOMER FIBER WITH MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF A MUSCLE
申请人:Naciri Jawad
公开号:US20070010627A1
公开(公告)日:2007-01-11
A method of making a liquid crystalline fiber is disclosed. A copolymer having a liquid crystalline side group and a crosslinking side group is crosslinked. A fiber of the crosslinking copolymer is drawn before the crosslinking reaction is complete.