Uniaxial and biaxial soft deformations of nematic elastomers

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

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2002, Pages

  Warner, M ^a   Kutter, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; ELASTOMERS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; ROTATION; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; TENSORS; THEOREM PROVING;

BIAXIAL SOFT DEFORMATIONS; MOLECULAR DISTRIBUTIONS; NEMATIC ELASTOMERS; NEMATIC NETWORKS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 41349090295     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.051707     Document Type: Article

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