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Figure 3. Mechanical responses of LCEs. (A) Schematic illustration of various phases and the crosslinking of LC mesogens. Reproduced with permission[32]. Copyright 2010, Wiley-VCH; (B) illustration of the polydomain and monodomain nematic LCEs. Reproduced with permission[38]. Copyright 2020, Wiley Periodicals LLC; (C) nonlinear mechanical responses of polydomain nematic LCEs under uniaxial stretching and the associated evolutions of LC alignments. Reproduced with permission[39]. Copyright 2017, RSC advances; (D) stress-strain curves of the monodomain nematic LCE under different loading directions. Reproduced with permission[16]. Copyright 2021, Wiley-VCH.