Dilbar Aibibu

Abstract To biomimetically mimic native muscle tissue new artificial soft actor materials need to be developed that can be processed into fibers and combine high mass-specific work, a sufficiently high contraction capacity, short contraction times, and biocompatibility. In this context, liquid crystal elastomers (LCE) are a promising class of materials that exhibit high actuator performance.

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Open AccessArticle by Lukas Benecke 1, Robert Tonndorf 1, Chokri Cherif 1,2 and Dilbar Aibibu 1,* 1 Institute of Textile Machinery and High Performance Material Technology, Technische Universität Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany 2 Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (CeTI), Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.