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Liquid crystal materials offer many opportunities for applications such as data storage [1], image processing [2], or optical modulators [3] calling for media that are sensitive to external stimuli . Today, they are considered to have great potential for the realization of so called "smart materials" through microto nano-scale patterning techniques. One interesting material in the flourishing group of smart materials is the Liquid Crystal Elastomer (LCE) which combines the properties of liquid crystals and polymers. An elastomer is formed by a weakly crosslinked network of polymers, which confers it a high elasticity. The polymer network has maximum entropy in his undistorted state, and as a result, it resists deformation [4]. As for liquid crystals, these are materials which present phases intermediate between crystalline and isotropic called mesophases, the molecules responsible for this property are named mesogens.

Monitoring the Contractile Properties of Optically Patterned Liquid Crystal Based Elastomers