Fast-Responding Artificial Muscles with Azophenol-Based Liquid Single Crystal Elastomers

Fast-Responding Artificial Muscles with Azophenol-Based Liquid Single Crystal Elastomers 

Potential materials to be employed for muscle-like actuation should be soft and deform easily upon illumination. In this context, polymers are valuable materials for this task due to their particularly attractive properties and characteristics they are lightweight, inexpensive, easily manufacturable and implementable, fracture tolerant, pliable, and biocompatible [64]. 

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Feringa, B.L. (ed) (2001) Molecular Switches, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim. 

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