A plant tendril mimic soft actuator with phototunable bending and chiral twisting motion modes

Plant tendrils are able to undergo both bending and chiral twisting motions but unfortunately synthetic mimics are unable to do this. Here the authors show a dual-layer polysiloxane-based liquid crystal soft actuator capable of two different 3D reversible transformations via light stimuli.

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Main Authors: Meng Wang, Bao-Ping Lin, Hong Yang
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2016
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/69077a80d7374fb792b977445cd973ac
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