Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) play role in tissue engineering investigations, with the combination of orientational ordering generated by liquid crystal (LC) moieties and the elastic capabilities of polymers. Liquid crystal‐based polymer materials require a thorough understanding of their features that set them apart from other smart materials for proper design and application. LCEs offer many advantages for their widespread use in the field of biomaterials, by virtue of their simplicity of processing, anisotropic behavior, and responding to numerous external stimuli. Especially, LCEs have widespread usage in bioengineering applications such as scaffolds due to their biocompatibility, viability, and proliferation properties of these materials. This study introduces a brief overview of the new areas of liquid crystal‐based elastomer applications combining both biomaterials and engineering.

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Since fruits and vegetables are rich in vitamins, minerals and antioxidant they are irreplaceable for a healthy life. Despite the fact that their benefits, they could cause serious diseases when they are consumed while they are deteriorated since they lose their nutrient value with time and became available for microorganisms. As a consequence of it, mold formation occurs which is harmful to both health and food industry. As a consequence of a serial of experiments which were performed considering the importance of the freshness of food in terms of health and food industry, the relation between freshness and ion mobility is revealed. As following a device was developed with the aim of determination freshness -ion concentration relation. For the evaluation of the sensor measurements, a software including experimental measurement deterioration and freshness result data has been developed and the freshness can be determined by using the designed sensor through this software. Obtained experimental measurement results and sensor measurement results are compared and the results are also supported by observations repeated at different conditions.

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