Figure 6
(a) One cycle of heating-cooling of the x40 xLCE network, with the temperature on the right y-axis, and the associated sample strain showing the classical reversible thermal actuation of LCE. (b) The cyclic contraction-extension during 11 heating cycles. (c) The actuation strain plotted against temperature, showing the reproducibility of actuation, and also the extent of thermal hysteresis at the heating rate of 3°/min applied in this test.
