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Liquid Crystal Polymer-Based Soft Robots
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DOI：10.1002/aisy.202000148.png)
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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.
Keywords:
intelligent functions
liquid crystal networks
liquid crystal polymers
soft actuators
soft robots
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