Actuation of liquid crystal elastomers reprocessed with carbon nanoparticles

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 24, 2006, Pages

  Chambers, Martin ^a   Zalar, Boštjan ^a   Remškar, Maja ^a   Žumer, Slobodan ^b   Finkelmann, Heino ^c  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTOMERS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC INSULATION; HEATING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

CARBON NANOPARTICLES; ELECTRICAL ACTUATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL ELASTOMERS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33845733179     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2404952     Document Type: Article

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