Spontaneous deformation of main-chain liquid-crystalline elastomers composed of smectic polyesters

Liquid Crystals

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 115-122

  Hiraoka, Kazuyuki ^a   Tashiro, Tohru ^a   Tokita, Masatoshi ^b   Watanabe, Junji ^b  

^a TOKYO POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cybotactic nematics; Elastomers; Liquid crystalline elastomers; Liquid crystalline polymers; Polymer networks; Shape memory; Smectic clusters; Smectic liquid crystals

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249086546     PISSN: 02678292     EISSN: 13665855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678290802696165     Document Type: Article

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