Paranematic-nematic phase transition in liquid crystalline elastomers: A 2H-NMR study

Phase Transitions

Volumn 83, Issue 10-11, 2010, Pages 1014-1025

  Domenici, Valentina ^a   Zalar, Bostjan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

actuators; dynamics; liquid crystal elastomers; orientational order; shape memory

Indexed keywords

INTRINSIC PROPERTY; LIQUID CRYSTAL ELASTOMERS; LIQUID CRYSTALLINE ELASTOMERS; MONODOMAINS; NEMATIC PHASE TRANSITIONS; NEMATIC PHASIS; NEMATIC TRANSITIONS; NMR SPECTROSCOPY; NMR STUDIES; ORIENTATIONAL ORDERS; PARANEMATIC PHASE; SHAPE MEMORY; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; SLOW DYNAMICS; SPECTRAL FEATURE; SPECTRAL LINE WIDTH; SPIN-SPIN RELAXATION TIME;

ACTUATORS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DEUTERIUM; ELASTOMERS; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PLASTICS;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 78649376285     PISSN: 01411594     EISSN: 10290338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01411594.2010.509614     Document Type: Conference Paper

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