Dae Seok Kim

Mesogen-Mimetic Anisotropic Crosslinkers for Load-Bearing Liquid Crystal Elastomer Artificial Muscles.

Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) can generate large reversible contractions, but their practical work output is often limited by thermal softening and insufficient load-bearing capability at actuation temperatures. Here, we introduce PBB-TT as a mesogen-mimetic anisotropic tetrathiol crosslinker for molecularly reinfor...