Smart Muscle‐Driven Self‐Cleaning of Biomimetic Microstructures from Liquid Crystal Elastomers

• DOI: 10.1002/adma.201503203
• Publication Date: 2015-09-29T19:06:26Z
• Authors: Hamed Shahsavan; Seyyed Muhammad S...; Antal Jákli; Boxin Zhao
• Keywords: Biomimetic Materials

Muscle-driven actuation of biomimetic microfibrillar structures is achieved using integrative soft-lithography on a backing splayed liquid-crystal elastomer (LCE). Variation in the LCE layer thickness yields different modes thermal deformation from pure bend to twist-bend. Muscular motion and dynamic self-cleaning gecko toe pads are mimicked via this mechanism. As service our authors readers, journal provides supporting information supplied by authors. Such materials peer reviewed may be re-organized for online delivery, but not copy-edited or typeset. Technical support issues arising (other than missing files) should addressed Please note: The publisher responsible content functionality any Any queries content) directed corresponding author article.