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16 Jul 08:59

Photomobile Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers with Rearrangeable Networks

by Toru Ube, Kyohei Kawasaki, Tomiki Ikeda
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Incorporation of dynamic covalent bonds into photomobile liquid-crystalline elastomers with a polysiloxane backbone enables the alignment of mesogens and macroscopic shapes to be controlled through the rearrangement of the network topology, even after the formation of chemically crosslinked networks. The reshaped samples show various sophisticated 3D motions upon irradiation with UV and visible light, depending on their initial shapes.

15 Jul 02:37

Mechanistic Origin of the Ultrastrong Adhesion between Graphene and a-SiO2: Beyond van der Waals

by Sandeep Kumar, David Parks and Ken Kamrin

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ACS Nano
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b00382