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Videos belonging to Chapters 5 and 6 of the PhD thesis “Thermoplastic Liquid Crystal Elastomer Soft Actuators”, (to be) published September 15, 2023.

Chapter 5 - Video S1. Photothermal actuation of the patterned coiled actuator (playback speed: 8×).

Chapter 5 - Video S2. Photothermal actuation of the patterned strip with periodic "hill" projections (playback speed: 8×).

Chapter 6 - Video S1. Thermal actuation of the single- and double-handed twisted fiber actuator lifting a weight of 11g (2x playback).

Chapter 6 - Video S2. Thermal actuation of the three-ply twisted rope construct actuator opening and closing a vial screwcap and subsequently lifting the closed vial (2x playback).


" authors: - family-names: Lugger given-names: Sean title: "Videos belonging to Chapters 5 and 6 of the PhD thesis “Thermoplastic Liquid Crystal Elastomer Soft Actuators”" keywords: version: 1 identifiers: - type: doi value: 10.4121/b5297e41-b224-4713-abfa-5bf127bde3d8.v1 license: CC BY-NC 4.0 date-released: 2023-06-08