Soft and Tangible Organic Responsive Materials progressing roBOTic functionS

Project Information

STORM-BOTS

Grant agreement ID: 956150

DOI

10.3030/956150

Project closed

EC signature date 18 August 2020

Start date 1 January 2021

End date 31 January 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost

€ 3 459 886,20

EU contribution

€ 3 459 886,20

Coordinated by

AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS
Spain

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Supervisory Board of the project created.

Network Newsletters

Network Newsletters in months 13, 25, 37 and 49.

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

Documents, reports (5)

Reports on the Network-wide training activities at Symposia & Boot-Camp event

Reports on the Network-wide training activities at Symposia & Boot-Camp event. Updates after each event (months 16, 22, 28 and 39).

Scientific publications

Scientific publications.

Recruitment plan
Guidelines for Supervision, PCDP elaboration and EST assessment

Guidelines for Supervision PCDP elaboration and EST assessment

Communication & Dissemination Strategy definition and updates

Communication & Dissemination Strategy definition and updates in months 15, 27, 38 and 49.

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Project website

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (21)

Active Surfaces Formed in Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks

Author(s): Astam, Mert Orhan; Zhan, Yuanyuan; Slot, Thierry Kilian; Liu, Danqing
Published in: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Issue 10/2/2022, 2022, Page(s) N/A, ISSN 1944-8244
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c21024

Photonic cognition of liquid crystal polymers for unlocking electrical locomotion

Author(s): Mert O. Astam, Samuël A.M. Weima, Ting-Hsuan Lee, Amy van Bezouw, Danqing Liu
Published in: Matter, Issue 7, 2024, Page(s) 1785-1798, ISSN 2590-2385
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2024.03.001

Slicing vector fields into tool paths for additive manufacturing of nematic elastomers

Author(s): Michał Zmyślony, Klaudia Dradrach, John S. Biggins
Published in: Additive Manufacturing, Issue 97, 2025, Page(s) 104604, ISSN 2214-8604
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.addma.2024.104604

Aligning and Observing the Liquid Crystal Director in 3D Using Small Magnetic Fields and a Wedge‐Cell

Author(s): Lovish Gulati, Carlos Sánchez‐Somolinos, Frank Giesselmann, Peer Fischer
Published in: Advanced Functional Materials, Issue 35, 2025, ISSN 1616-301X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202413513

Self-regulating electrical rhythms with liquid crystal oligomer networks in hybrid circuitry

Author(s): Mert O. Astam, Pengrong Lyu, Jacques Peixoto, Danqing Liu
Published in: Soft Matter, 2022, Page(s) 7236-7244, ISSN 1744-6848
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d2sm01117d

Localized and Limited‐Dispersive Delivery of Thermal Stimuli to Liquid Crystal Oligomer Networks Through Radio‐Frequency Media

Author(s): Mert O. Astam, Demian Verheesen, Pengrong Lyu, Samuël A.M. Weima, Danqing Liu
Published in: Advanced Functional Materials, 2024, Page(s) 2407355, ISSN 1616-301X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202407355

Geometry, mechanics and actuation of intrinsically curved folds

Author(s): Fan Feng, Klaudia Dradrach, Michał Zmyślony, Morgan Barnes, John S. Biggins
Published in: Soft Matter, Issue 20, 2024, Page(s) 2132-2140, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d3sm01584j

Equilibrium and transient response of photo-actuated Liquid Crystal Elastomer beams

Author(s): Reza Norouzikudiani, Alessandro Lucantonio, Antonio DeSimone
Published in: Mechanics Research Communications, 2023, Page(s) 104126, ISSN 0093-6413
Publisher: Pergamon Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.mechrescom.2023.104126

Magneto-Photochemically Responsive Liquid Crystal Elastomer for Underwater Actuation

Author(s): Yasaman Nemati, Qi Yang, Fereshteh Sohrabi, Jaakko V. I. Timonen, Carlos Sánchez-Somolinos, Mari Honkanen, Hao Zeng, Arri Priimagi
Published in: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Issue 17, 2025, Page(s) 5316-5325, ISSN 1944-8244
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c14704

Photochemically Induced Propulsion of a 4D Printed Liquid Crystal Elastomer Biomimetic Swimmer

Author(s): Paolo Sartori, Rahul Singh Yadav, Jesús del Barrio, Antonio DeSimone, Carlos Sánchez‐Somolinos
Published in: Advanced Science, Issue 11, 2024, Page(s) 2308561, ISSN 2198-3844
Publisher: Wiley-VCH GmbH
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202308561

Spontaneous snap-through of strongly buckled liquid crystalline networks

Author(s): Duygu Sezen Polat, Michał Zmyślony, John S. Biggins, Danqing Liu
Published in: Extreme Mechanics Letters, Issue 68, 2024, Page(s) 102149, ISSN 2352-4316
Publisher: Elsevier Limited
DOI: 10.1016/j.eml.2024.102149

Light-steerable locomotion using zero-elastic-energy modes

Author(s): Zixuan Deng, Kai Li, Arri Priimagi, Hao Zeng
Published in: Nature Materials, 2024, ISSN 1476-1122
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41563-024-02026-4

Self-Oscillations of Submerged Liquid Crystal Elastomer Beams Driven by Light and Self-Shadowing

Author(s): Reza Norouzikudiani, Luciano Teresi, Antonio DeSimone
Published in: Journal of Elasticity, Issue 156, 2024, Page(s) 1243-1260, ISSN 0374-3535
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10659-024-10091-8

Liquid Crystal Networks Meet Water: It's Complicated!

Author(s): Natalie P. Pinchin, Hongshuang Guo, Henning Meteling, Zixuan Deng, Arri Priimagi, Hamed Shahsavan
Published in: Advanced Materials, Issue 36, 2024, Page(s) 2303740, ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher: United Nations Industrial Developement Organization
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202303740

Light-Fueled Nonreciprocal Self-Oscillators for Fluidic Transportation and Coupling

Author(s): Zixuan Deng; Hang Zhang; Arri Priimagi; Hao Zeng
Published in: Advanced Materials, Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 1521-4095
Publisher: Wiley-VCH GmbH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202209683

Multimodal and Multistimuli 4D-Printed Magnetic Composite Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators

Author(s): Erick R. Espíndola-Pérez, Javier Campo, Carlos Sánchez-Somolinos
Published in: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Issue 15, 2024, Page(s) 2704-2715, ISSN 1944-8244
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c14607

Robotic Pick‐and‐Place Operations in Multifunctional Liquid Crystal Elastomers

Author(s): Pengrong Lyu; Mert Orhan Astam; Carlos Sánchez-Somolinos; Danqing Liu
Published in: Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2022, ISSN 2640-4567
Publisher: Wiley-VCH GmbH
DOI: 10.1002/aisy.202200280

Dual‐Responsive Gradient Structured Actuator via Photopolymerization‐Induced Diffusion

Author(s): Duygu Sezen Polat, Vera E. Buurman, Dirk J. Mulder, Danqing Liu
Published in: Chemistry – A European Journal, Issue 30, 2024, Page(s) e202400515, ISSN 0947-6539
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202400515

A Scalable, Incoherent‐Light‐Powered, Omnidirectional Self‐Oscillator

Author(s): Yasaman Nemati, Zixuan Deng, Haotian Pi, Hongshuang Guo, Hang Zhang, Arri Priimagi, Hao Zeng
Published in: Advanced Intelligent Systems, Issue 6, 2024, Page(s) 2300054, ISSN 2640-4567
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/aisy.202300054

Light-driven peristaltic pumping by an actuating splay-bend strip

Author(s): Klaudia Dradrach, Michał Zmyślony, Zixuan Deng, Arri Priimagi, John Biggins, Piotr Wasylczyk
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 14, 2023, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37445-5

Human interactive liquid crystal fiber arrays

Author(s): Samuël A. M. Weima, Reza Norouzikudiani, Jaeryang Baek, Jacques A. Peixoto, Thierry K. Slot, Dirk J. Broer, Antonio DeSimone, Danqing Liu
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 10, 2024, Page(s) eadp0421, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: AAAS
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adp0421

Conference proceedings (1)

Advanced manufacturing of polymeric materials: From molecule to application through processing

Author(s): Carlos Sánchez-Somolinos
Published in: Proceedings of nanoGe Fall Meeting 2021 (NFM21), 2021
Publisher: Fundació de la comunitat valenciana SCITO
DOI: 10.29363/nanoge.nfm.2021.151