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Yuxing Yao, Atalaya Milan Wilborn, Baptiste Lemaire, Foteini Trigka, Friedrich Stricker, Alan H Weible, Shucong Li, Robert KA Bennett, Tung Chun Cheung, Alison Grinthal, Mikhail Zhernenkov, Guillaume Freychet, Patryk Wąsik, Boris Kozinsky, Michael M Lerch, Xiaoguang Wang, Joanna Aizenberg (2024). Programming liquid crystal elastomers for multistep ambidirectional deformability. Science.

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Shiyu Wang, Shucong Li, Wenchang Zhao, Ying Zhou, Liqiu Wang, Joanna Aizenberg, Pingan Zhu (2024). Programming hierarchical anisotropy in microactuators for multimodal actuation. Lab on a Chip.

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Shucong Li, Michael Aizenberg, Michael Lerch, Joanna Aizenberg (2023). Programming Deformations of 3D Microstructures; Opportunities Enabled by Magnetic Alignment of Liquid Crystalline Elastomers. Acc. Mater. Res..

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Hualiang Lv, Yuxing Yao, Shucong Li, Guanglei Wu, Biao Zhao, Xiaodi Zhou, Robert L. Dupont, Ufuoma I. Kara, Yimin Zhou, Shibo Xi, Bo Liu, Renchao Che, Jincang Zhang, Hongbin Xu, Solomon Adera, Renbing Wu, Xiaoguang Wang (2023). Staggered circular nanoporous graphene converts electromagnetic waves into electricity. Nature Communications.

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Shucong Li, Michael M Lerch, James T Waters, Bolei Deng, Reese S Martens, Yuxing Yao, Do Yoon Kim, Katia Bertoldi, Alison Grinthal, Anna C Balazs, Joanna Aizenberg (2022). Self-regulated non-reciprocal motions in single-material microstructures. Nature.

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Yuxing Yao, Robert K. A. Bennett, Yang Xu, Adil M. Rather, Shucong Li, Tung Chun Cheung, Alisha Bhanji, Michael J. Kreder, Dan Daniel, Solomon Adera, Joanna Aizenberg, Xiaoguang Wang (2022). Wettability-based ultrasensitive detection of amphiphiles through directed concentration at disordered regions in self-assembled monolayers. PNAS.

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Shucong Li, Bolei Deng, Alison Grinthal, Alyssha Schneider-Yamamura, Jinliang Kang, Reese S Martens, Cathy T Zhang, Jian Li, Siqin Yu, Katia Bertoldi, Joanna Aizenberg (2021). Liquid-induced topological transformations of cellular microstructures. Nature.

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Michael M Lerch, Ankita Shastri, Thomas B.H. Schroeder, Amos Meeks, Shucong Li, Anna V. Shneidman, Michael Aizenberg, Joanna Aizenberg (2021). From Appendage to Crosslinker – Unusual Swelling Behavior in Spiropyran-Modified Hydrogels. chemrxiv.

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Shucong Li, Gabriele Librandi, Yuxing Yao, Austin J. Richard, Alyssha Schneider-Yamamura, Joanna Aizenberg, Katia Bertoldi (2021). Controlling Liquid Crystal Orientations for Programmable Anisotropic Transformations in Cellular Microstructures. Advanced Materials.

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James T. Waters, Shucong Li, Yuxing Yao, Michael M. Lerch, Michael Aizenberg, Joanna Aizenberg, Anna C. Balazs (2020). Twist again; Dynamically and reversibly controllable chirality in liquid crystalline elastomer microposts. Science Advances.

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Emily C. Davidson, Arda Kotikian, Shucong Li, Joanna Aizenberg, Jennifer A. Lewis (2020). 3D printable and reconfigurable liquid crystal elastomers with light-induced shape memory via dynamic bond exchange. Advanced Materials.

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Yuxing Yao, James T. Waters, Anna V. Shneidman, Jiaxi Cui, Xiaoguang Wang, Nikolaj K. Mandsberg, Shucong Li, Anna C. Balazs, Joanna Aizenberg (2018). Multiresponsive polymeric microstructures with encoded predetermined and self-regulated deformability. PNAS.

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