Liquid Crystal Polymer‐Based Soft Robots

Soft robots outperform the conventional robots on enhanced safety for human–machine interaction, environmental adaptability, and continuous deformation. In this blooming area of fundamental and technological importance, liquid crystal polymer networks and liquid crystal elastomers (referred to as LCNs) have emerged as one of the most valuable candidates for soft robots due to their complex, large, and reversible shape change capabilities. To date, much research effort, mainly regarding chemical synthesis, fabrication technologies and soft robot design, has been dedicated to LCN robotic systems to endow them with versatile and complex actions controlled by various stimuli. Herein, starting with the principle that governs the stimuli‐responsiveness of LCNs, recent progress made in LCN soft robots is summarized while focusing on different robotic motions, such as grapping, walking, swimming, and oscillation. Especially, novel LCNs with intelligent functions such as reprocessability, reconfigurability, self‐regulating behavior and associative learning capability, are highlighted. This article aims to provide significant insights into the design and development of LCN‐based soft robots.

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Liquid Crystal Polymer‐Based Soft Robots ; volume:2 ; number:12 ; year:2020 ; extent:23
Advanced intelligent systems ; 2, Heft 12 (2020) (gesamt 23)

Urheber
Xiao, Yao-Yu
Jiang, Zhi-Chao
Zhao, Yue

DOI
10.1002/aisy.202000148
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022063008090131057882
Rechteinformation
Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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15.08.2025, 07:32 MESZ

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  • Xiao, Yao-Yu
  • Jiang, Zhi-Chao
  • Zhao, Yue

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