Light-driven continuous rotating Möbius strip actuators

Shape morphing materials are usually difficult to operate in a continuous fashion. Nie et al. fabricate stripes with liquid crystalline elastomers that can be given a Möbius-like morphology with seamless material composition, and perpetually driven under photothermally induced actuation.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zhen-Zhou Nie, Bo Zuo, Meng Wang, Shuai Huang, Xu-Man Chen, Zhi-Yang Liu, Hong Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22644-9