Universal elasticity and fluctuations of nematic gels

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 16, 2003, Pages

  Xing, Xiangjun ^a   Radzihovsky, Leo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; ELASTOMERS; GELS; HAMILTONIANS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POISSON RATIO;

LIQUID CRYSTAL ELASTOMER; LIQUID CRYSTAL GELS; NON-HOOKEAN ELASTICITY; TRANSVERSE SHEAR MODULUS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0037526585     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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