High-Resolution 3D Direct Laser Writing for LiquidCrystalline Elastomer Microstructures

  • Hao Zeng
  • , Daniele Martella
  • , Piotr Wasylczyk
  • , Giacomo Cerretti
  • , Jean-Christophe Gomez Lavocat
  • , Chih-Hua Ho
  • , Camilla Parmeggiani*
  • , Diederik Sybolt Wiersma
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)2319-2322
    Number of pages4
    JournalAdvanced Materials
    Volume26
    Issue number15
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Apr 2014
    Publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

    Funding

    The research leading to these results has received funding from the IIT SEED project Microswim and the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement no. [291349] on photonic microrobotics. J.-C. G. L., and C.-H. H. were supported by the Erasmus Mundus Doctorate Program Europhotonics (Grant No. 159224-1-2009-1-FR-ERA MUNDUS-EMJD and the EM Action 1 Joint Programmes project no. 2010-0001 -001/001-Europhotonics EMJD respectively).

    Keywords

    • liquid-crystalline elastomers
    • direct laser writing
    • alignment
    • smart materials
    • azobenzene
    • LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE ELASTOMERS
    • NEMATIC ELASTOMER
    • LIGHT
    • DRIVEN
    • ACTUATORS
    • NETWORKS

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