Texture evolution during the polydomain-monodomain transition in nematic elastomers

Macromolecules

Volumn 31, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 4862-4872

  Clarke, S M ^a   Terentjev, E M ^a   Kundler, I ^b   Finkelmann, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; TEXTURES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; X RAY SCATTERING;

NEMATIC ELASTOMERS; POLYDOMAIN MONODOMAIN TRANSITIONS; SMALL ANGLE POLARIZED LIGHT SCATTERING; TEXTURE EVOLUTION;

ELASTOMERS;

EID: 0032115875     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma980195j     Document Type: Article

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