Liquid Crystal Elastomer–Liquid Metal Composite: Ultrafast, Untethered, and Programmable Actuation by Induction Heating (Adv. Mater. 34/2024)

Liquid Crystal Elastomer–Liquid Metal Composite In article number 2302765, Ruike Renee Zhao and co-workers present a novel liquid crystal elastomer-liquid metal (LCE-LM) composite enabling ultrafast, reversible, remote, and programmable actuation through eddy current induction heating. The programmability of the LCE-LM composite is exploited for multimodal pop-up deformations through sequential actuation and soft robotic locomotion mimicking turtle fin deformation through selective actuation strategy.