Photochromic liquid crystal polymer(LCP)films can undergo spontaneous mechanical deformations upon light illuminations.The light-induced strain is due to photoisomerization and the nematic–isotropic phase transition....Photochromic liquid crystal polymer(LCP)films can undergo spontaneous mechanical deformations upon light illuminations.The light-induced strain is due to photoisomerization and the nematic–isotropic phase transition.A gradient strain exists due to absorption decay of the light intensity and will produce bending of LCP strips.Beam bending models are studied for single layered and bilayered LCP strips with substrate.The results show that the multilayered structures can have much larger bending curvature due to the utilization of the average light-induced contractions which were mostly not active for single-layered LCPs.Some structural optimizations for bilayered laminate are also discussed.展开更多
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文摘Photochromic liquid crystal polymer(LCP)films can undergo spontaneous mechanical deformations upon light illuminations.The light-induced strain is due to photoisomerization and the nematic–isotropic phase transition.A gradient strain exists due to absorption decay of the light intensity and will produce bending of LCP strips.Beam bending models are studied for single layered and bilayered LCP strips with substrate.The results show that the multilayered structures can have much larger bending curvature due to the utilization of the average light-induced contractions which were mostly not active for single-layered LCPs.Some structural optimizations for bilayered laminate are also discussed.