A flexible future for robotics
29-Aug-2013
- USA
The team produced a series of cantilevers made from azobenzene liquid crystal polymer networks that have movement, powered only by a change in the polarity and intensity of an external light source. The direction of the resulting torsional movement is partly controlled by the order within the material.
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