Abstract When a liquid crystal elastomer layer is bonded to an elastic layer, it creates bilayer with interesting properties that can be activated by applying traction at the boundaries or optothermal stimulation. Here, we examine wrinkling responses in three-dimensional nonlinear systems containing monodomain and homogeneous isotropic incompressible hyperelastic such one thin compared other. T...

Liquid crystal polymer networks (LCNs) have a great potential in soft actuator technologies. In contrast to other materials, LCNs offer wide range of external stimuli which can trigger their actuation. These are for example based on changes temperature, photo-induced or via the application electric fields. We here discuss main LCN actuation mechanisms and classify them into several groups used ...