Fast liquid-crystal elastomer swims into the dark

Nature Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 307-310

  Camacho Lopez, Miguel ^a,b   Finkelmann, Heino ^c   Palffy Muhoray, Peter ^a   Shelley, Michael ^d  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ACTUATORS; ANISOTROPY; CHEMICAL BONDS; CROSSLINKING; DEFORMATION; DYES; ELASTOMERS; EVAPORATION; IONS; MONOMERS; RUBBER; SAMPLING;

COVALENT BONDS; LIQUID-CRYSTAL ELASTOMERS (LCE); MOMENTUM TRANSFER; ORIENTATIONAL ORDER;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

AZO COMPOUND; COLORING AGENT; ELASTOMER; POLYMETHYLSILOXANE; SILICONE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELASTICITY; ENERGY TRANSFER; EVALUATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; MOTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SURFACE TENSION;

AZO COMPOUNDS; COLORING AGENTS; ELASTICITY; ELASTOMERS; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; MOTION; SILICONES; SURFACE TENSION;

EID: 2342577560     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1118     Document Type: Article

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