Thermally driven giant bending of liquid crystal elastomer films with hybrid alignment

Macromolecules

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4362-4369

  Sawa, Yoshiki ^a   Urayama, Kenji ^a   Takigawa, Toshikazu ^a   Desimone, Antonio ^b   Teresi, Luciano ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

^c ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING DEFORMATIONS; BOTTOM SURFACES; DRY STATE; ELASTOMER FILMS; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; FLAT SPECIMEN; HIGH TEMPERATURE; ISOTROPIC STATE; LINEAR VARIATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL ELASTOMERS; MATERIAL PARAMETER; NEMATIC ELASTOMERS; NEMATIC STATE; NONLINEAR ELASTICITY; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PLANAR ALIGNMENT; STRESS AND STRAIN DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMALLY DRIVEN; THERMALLY INDUCED; THICKNESS DIRECTION; UNIAXIAL DEFORMATION; VERTICAL ALIGNMENT;

ALIGNMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTOMERS; GELS; HEATING; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PLASTICS; RUBBER; SPECIMEN PREPARATION;

BENDING (DEFORMATION);

EID: 77951904082     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma1003979     Document Type: Article

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