Nematic elastomer fiber actuator

Macromolecules

Volumn 36, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 8499-8505

  Naciri, Jawad ^a   Srinivasan, Amritha ^a   Jeon, Hong ^a   Nikolov, Nikolay ^a   Keller, Patrick ^b   Ratna, Banahalli R ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSLINKING; DOPING (ADDITIVES); PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLYMERIZATION; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TERPOLYMERS; TEXTURES; THERMOELASTICITY; VISCOELASTICITY;

CROSS POLARIZER MICROSCOPE; DIISOCYANATE; LIQUID CRYSTALLINE ACRYLATES; NEMATIC ELASTOMER FIBER ACTUATOR; NONMESOGENNIC COMONOMER; RADICAL POLYMERIZATION;

ELASTOMERS;

EID: 0344980704     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma034921g     Document Type: Article

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