Changing liquid crystal elastomer ordering with light - a route to opto-mechanically responsive materials

Liquid Crystals

Volumn 36, Issue 10-11, 2009, Pages 1263-1280

  Corbett, D ^a   Warner, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Absorption; Actuation; Elastomer; Glass; Nematic; Non linear; Photoisomerisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 71049119392     PISSN: 02678292     EISSN: 13665855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678290903062994     Document Type: Article

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