Since Paul Gleason championed “Lookouts, Communications, Escape Routes and Safety Zones” (LCES) in the early 1990s, it has become one of the most trusted and applied tools in the wildland ...

LCEs are soft actuating materials with large and reversible anisotropic deformation ability under cyclic heating and cooling. This deformability acts as a “motor,” enabling complex deformations and ...

Figure 1: Synthesis and dynamic strain stiffening of polydomain LCEs. Figure 4: Reorientation of LC polymer chains under dynamic compression. A comparison of deformed and undeformed LCEs shows that ...