Anomalous viscoelastic response of nematic elastomers

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 18, 2001, Pages 4044-4047

  Clarke, S M ^a,b   Tajbakhsh, A R ^a   Terentjev, E M ^a   Warner, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELASTIC MODULI; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREE ENERGY; GLASS TRANSITION; RELAXATION PROCESSES; TENSORS; THERMAL EXPANSION; VISCOELASTICITY; X RAY SCATTERING;

DYNAMIC MECHANICAL MEASUREMENTS; ELASTIC FREE ENERGY DENSITY; LINEAR SYMMETRIC STRAIN TENSOR; NEMATIC ELASTOMERS; RELAXATION DYNAMICS;

ELASTOMERS;

EID: 0035971831     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.4044     Document Type: Article

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