2021
DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.14135.1
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Direct laser writing of liquid crystal elastomers oriented by a horizontal electric field

Abstract: Background: The ability to fabricate components capable of performing actuation in a reliable and controlled manner is one of the main research topics in the field of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). However, the development of these technologies can be limited in many cases by 2D lithographic techniques employed in the fabrication process. Direct Laser Writing (DLW), a 3D microprinting technique based on two-photon polymerization, can offer novel solutions to prepare, both rapidly and reliably, 3D nano-… Show more

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“…In addition to the requirement for the manual work and the time consuming and inaccurate nature of the assembling procedure, this method also restricts the geometrical complexity of the structure. Inspired by our first published paper in this work, researchers demonstrated real voxel-by-voxel encoding alignment through combination of an external electric field with DLW photopolymerization technique [83,84]. While this method is desirable at this small scale, the electric field becomes much more inefficient than magnetic field at larger scales.…”
Section: Direct Laser Writing Of Liquid Crystal Elastomersmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In addition to the requirement for the manual work and the time consuming and inaccurate nature of the assembling procedure, this method also restricts the geometrical complexity of the structure. Inspired by our first published paper in this work, researchers demonstrated real voxel-by-voxel encoding alignment through combination of an external electric field with DLW photopolymerization technique [83,84]. While this method is desirable at this small scale, the electric field becomes much more inefficient than magnetic field at larger scales.…”
Section: Direct Laser Writing Of Liquid Crystal Elastomersmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…13 Superposition of electric fields with photopolymerization was used for voxel-by-voxel blueprinting of molecular order. 14,15 Guo et al applied two-photon polymerization technique to generate LCE freeforms. The alignment complexity was enhanced by fabricating microchannels on the walls 16 to modulate molecular order.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%