A soft sandwich structure enables voltage-induced actuation of liquid metal embedded elastomers
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Photomechanical actuation of liquid crystal nanotube elastomers
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عنوان ژورنال: AIP Advances
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2158-3226
DOI: 10.1063/1.5129352