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Chinese Journal of Liquid Crystals and Displays, Volume. 39, Issue 3, 257(2024)

4D printed programmable deformable liquid metal-liquid crystal elastomer soft actuator

Faxin WANG1, Huan ZHANG1, Yuanhao CHEN1, Le YANG1, Ran BI1, Yongtao SHEN1, Wei FENG1, and Ling WANG1,2、*
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  • 1School of Materials Science and Engineering， Tianjin University， Tianjin 300350， China
  • 2Binhai Industrial Research Institute， Tianjin University， Tianjin 300452， China
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    Faxin WANG, Huan ZHANG, Yuanhao CHEN, Le YANG, Ran BI, Yongtao SHEN, Wei FENG, Ling WANG. 4D printed programmable deformable liquid metal-liquid crystal elastomer soft actuator[J]. Chinese Journal of Liquid Crystals and Displays, 2024, 39(3): 257

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    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Jul. 13, 2023

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Apr. 29, 2024

    The Author Email: Ling WANG (lwang17@tju.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.37188/CJLCD.2023-0243

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