Abstract
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News-New research on Robotics is the subjec t of a report. According to news reporting originating from Shanghai,People's R epublic of China,by NewsRx correspondents,research stated,"Deformable liquid crystal polymers (LCPs) driven by more than one external stimulus have received extensive attention in fields ranging from multifunctional soft robots to bionic actuators. Combining responsive liquid crystal with nonmesogenic responsive gro ups within polymer offers a versatile way to obtain multiresponsive LCPs." Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Fudan University,"Howe ver,the incorporation of nonmesogenic responsive groups causes interruption in the assembly of mesogens and brings a challenge to the alignment of LCPs. Herein ,a new method is put forward to facilitate uniform mesogen alignment by exertin g water vapor in the film preparation process. Using this method,vapor-assisted alignment,the homeotropic alignment of azobenzene mesogens is achieved in a co polymer containing nonmesogenic poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG). The obtained copoly mer films present photodeformation brought by azobenzene isomerization and humid ity-responsive deformation resulting from the asymmetric swelling of film surfac es. The dual-responsive smart ‘blinds' and bionic flower actuators are fabricate d to demonstrate the integration of the two different stimuli."
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