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SUBMITTER: Li Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5455816 | biostudies-other | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Materials (Basel, Switzerland) 20140722 7
Liquid crystalline networks (LCNs) are a class of polymers, which are able to produce mechanical actuation in response to external stimuli. Recent creation of LCNs with exchangeable links (xLCNs) makes LCNs easy moldable. As the xLCNs need to be shaped at a high temperature, it is important to enhance their thermal and mechanical properties. In this paper, a series of xLCNs/SiO₂ composites containing 1%-7% SiO₂ nanoparitcles (SNP) were prepared and their thermal and mechanical properties were ex ...[more]