Light-Powered Liquid Crystal Polymer Network Actuator Using TiO Nanoparticles as an Inorganic Ultraviolet-Light Absorber.

Recently, the design and fabrication of light-powered actuators have attracted immense attention because of the manufacturing of intelligent soft robots and innovative self-regulating devices. Accordingly, a liquid crystal polymer network (LCN) provides a promising platform due to its reversible and multistimulus-responsive shape-changing behaviors. In particular, doping nanoparticles with exclusive properties into the LCN can produce interesting results.