Slow dynamics of shape recovery of disordered nematic elastomers

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Urayama, Kenji ^a   Honda, Seiji ^a   Takigawa, Toshikazu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSLINKING; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SWELLING;

MESOGEN ALIGNMENT; POLYDOMAIN NEMATIC STATE; RELAXATION TIME; SHAPE RECOVERY;

ELASTOMERS;

EID: 33750536661     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.041709     Document Type: Article

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