Thursday, May 3, 2012

Photoinduced Deformation of Crosslinked Liquid-Crystalline Polymer Film Oriented by a Highly Aligned Carbon Nanotube Sheet



Bending over backwards: A highly aligned carbon nanotube sheet orients crosslinked liquid-crystalline polymer through a simple melting process (see picture). The resulting composite film can be rapidly bent and unbent by alternate irradiation with UV and visible light. The film also exhibits excellent mechanical and electrical properties due to the incorporation of aligned CNTs.


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