Published Papers

Takezawa, Yoshitaka, Naoki Furukawa, Senguttuvan Nachimuthu, Risheng Zhou, and Amir Torbati. "Higher-Order Structural Analysis of a Transparent and Flexible High Thermal Conductive Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Sheet and Its Composite." ACS Omega (2024).(https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.3c09550)

Mistry, Devesh, N. A. Traugutt, B. Sanborn, R. H. Volpe, L. S. Chatham, R. Zhou, B. Song, K. Yu, K. N. Long, C. M. Yakacki. “Soft elasticity optimises dissipation in 3D-printed liquid crystal elastomers.” Nature Communications 12, Article: 6677 (2021).

Yount, Darcie L, Mark Jesunathadas, Thomas E. Plaisted, Shayne York, Elizabeth D. Edwards,
Trenton E. Gould, Lillian S. Chatham, Scott G. Piland. “Performance of a novel football helmet technology on head impact kinematics.” Sports Engineering, 24:18 (2021).

Shaha, Rajib K., Amir H. Torbati, and Carl P. Frick. "Body‐temperature shape‐shifting liquid crystal elastomers." Journal of Applied Polymer Science 138.14 (2021): 50136.

Shaha, Rajib K., Daniel R. Merkel, Mitchell P. Anderson, Emily J. Devereaux, Ravi R. Patel, Amir H. Torbati, Nick Willett, Christopher M. Yakacki, and Carl P. Frick. "Biocompatible liquid-crystal elastomers mimic the intervertebral disc." Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials (2020): 103757.

Traugutt, Nicholas A., Devesh Mistry, Chaoqian Luo, Kai Yu, Qi Ge, and Christopher M. Yakacki. "Liquid‐Crystal‐Elastomer‐Based Dissipative Structures by Digital Light Processing 3D Printing." Advanced Materials (2020): 2000797.

Samuel T. Mills TSY, Lillian Chatham, Sourav Poddar, R. Dana Carpenter, Christopher M. Yakacki. “Effect of Foam Densification and Impact Velocity on the Performance of an NFL Helmet Using Computational Modeling.” Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering 2020; submitted.
 

Volpe RH, Mistry D, Patel VV, Patel RR, Yakacki CM. “Dynamically Crystalizing Liquid-Crystal Elastomers for an Expandable Endplate-Conforming Interbody Fusion Cage." Advanced Healthcare Materials;n/a(n/a):1901136.

Merkel, Daniel R., et al. "Mechanical energy dissipation in polydomain nematic liquid crystal elastomers in response to oscillating loading." Polymer 166 (2019): 148-154.

Merkel, Daniel R., et al. "Thermomechanical properties of monodomain nematic main-chain liquid crystal elastomers." Soft Matter 14.29 (2018): 6024-6036.

Frick, Carl P., et al. "Copper‐Coated Liquid‐Crystalline Elastomer via Bioinspired Polydopamine Adhesion and Electroless Deposition." Macromolecular rapid communications 37.23 (2016): 1912-1917.

Traugutt N, Volpe R, Bollinger M, Saed M, Torbati A, Yu K, Dadivanyan N, Yakacki C. Liquid-crystal order during synthesis affects main-chain liquid-crystal elastomer behavior. Soft Matter 2017;13(39):7013-7025.
 

Saed MO, Torbati AH, Starr CA, Visvanathan R, Clark NA, Yakacki CM. Thiol‐acrylate main‐chain liquid‐crystalline elastomers with tunable thermomechanical properties and actuation strain. Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics 2017;55(2):157-168.
 

Saed MO, Volpe RH, Traugutt NA, Visvanathan R, Clark NA, Yakacki CM. High strain actuation liquid crystal elastomers via modulation of mesophase structure. Soft Matter 2017;13(41):7537-7547.

Azoug A, Vasconcellos V, Dooling J, Saed M, Yakacki C, Nguyen T. Viscoelasticity of the polydomain-monodomain transition in main-chain liquid crystal elastomers. Polymer 2016;98:165-171.
 

Frick CP, Merkel DR, Laursen CM, Brinckmann SA, Yakacki CM. Copper‐Coated Liquid‐Crystalline Elastomer via Bioinspired Polydopamine Adhesion and Electroless Deposition. Macromolecular rapid communications 2016;37(23):1912-1917.
 

Saed M, Torbati, A., Nair, D. P., Yakacki, C. M. Synthesis of Programmable Main-Chain Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers Using a Two-Stage Thiol-Acrylate Reaction Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) 2015;In Press.
 

Yakacki CM, Saed M, Nair DP, Gong T, Reed SM, Bowman CN. Tailorable and programmable liquid-crystalline elastomers using a two-stage thiol-acrylate reaction. Rsc Advances 2015;5(25):18997-19001.