Deformation and rotations of free nematic elastomers in response to electric fields

Soft Matter

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1433-1439

  Corbett, Daniel ^a   Warner, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTOMERS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; POLYMERS; RUBBER;

CHARACTERISTIC VOLTAGES; FIELD DIRECTIONS; GEOMETRICAL CONSTRAINTS; MECHANICAL DEFORMATIONS; NEMATIC ELASTOMERS;

DEFORMATION;

EID: 63049127752     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b817340k     Document Type: Article

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