Nature Communications (Dec 2016)

A plant tendril mimic soft actuator with phototunable bending and chiral twisting motion modes

  • Meng Wang,
  • Bao-Ping Lin,
  • Hong Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13981
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Plant tendrils are able to undergo both bending and chiral twisting motions but unfortunately synthetic mimics are unable to do this. Here the authors show a dual-layer polysiloxane-based liquid crystal soft actuator capable of two different 3D reversible transformations via light stimuli.