Liquid Crystalline Elastomers Prepared by Catalytic Chain Transfer Photopolymerization of Methacrylate Liquid Crystal Monomers
Liquid-crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are soft, anisotropic materials exhibiting stimuli-responsive properties with potential utility in robotics, optics, and sensing. Historically, LCEs have been prepared via hydrosilylation reactions to form polysiloxane materials with either main-chain or side-chain liquid crystall...