A single director switching mode for monodomain liquid crystal elastomers

Journal de Physique I

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1337-1351

  Roberts, Philip M S ^a   Mitchell, Geoffrey R ^a   Davis, Frederick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; MONOLAYERS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; POLYACRYLATES; ROTATION; STRAIN;

MONODOMAINS;

ELASTOMERS;

EID: 0031245578     PISSN: 11554304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/jp2:1997190     Document Type: Article

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