Stress-strain behavior in main chain liquid crystalline elastomers: Effect of crosslinking density and transverse rod incorporation on "Poisson's ratio"

Physica Status Solidi (B) Basic Research

Volumn 246, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2124-2130

  Ren, Wanting ^a,b   McMullan, Philip J ^a   Griffin, Anselm C ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b China Textile Academy   (China)

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EID: 76849107169     PISSN: 03701972     EISSN: 15213951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssb.200982045     Document Type: Article

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