title: Photomobile Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers with Rearrangeable Networks.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Research and Development Initiative, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 112-8551, Japan.
authors.forename: Toru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ube
authors.affiliation: Research and Development Initiative, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 112-8551, Japan.
authors.forename: Kyohei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kawasaki
authors.affiliation: Research and Development Initiative, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 112-8551, Japan. tikeda@tamacc.chuo-u.ac.jp.|Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 29 Zhongguancun East Road, Beijing, 100190, China. tikeda@tamacc.chuo-u.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Tomiki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ikeda
keywords: azobenzene; dynamic covalent bonds; liquid-crystalline polymers; photomechanical effect; soft actuators