Unconventional elasticity in smectic- A elastomers

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

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Stenull, Olaf ^a   Lubensky, T C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; MATERIALS SCIENCE; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; STRESS-STRAIN CURVES;

CONVENTIONAL UNIAXIAL RUBBERS; LATERAL ELECTROSTRICTION; MATERIALS GENUINELY; UNCONVENTIONAL ELASTICITY;

ELASTOMERS;

EID: 34547226577     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.011706     Document Type: Article

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