An artificial muscle with lamellar structure based on a nematic triblock copolymer

作者:Li MH*; Keller P; Yang JY; Albouy PA
来源:Advanced Materials, 2004, 16(21): 1922-+.
DOI:10.1002/adma.200400658

摘要

A muscle-like material with a lamellar structure has been prepared for the first time from a liquid-crystalline triblock copolymer. The material consists of a repeated series of nematic-polymer blocks and conventional rubber blocks. The motor for the contraction is the reversible macromolecular-chain shape change, from stretched to spherical, of the nematic polymer that occurs at the nematic-to-isotropic phase transition.

  • 出版日期2004-11-4