Bending kinetics of a photo-actuating nematic elastomer cantilever

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 25, 2011, Pages

  Torras, N ^a   Zinoviev, K E ^a   Marshall, J E ^b   Terentjev, E M ^b   Esteve, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING DYNAMICS; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; IRRADIATION POWER; LIQUID CRYSTAL ELASTOMERS; NEMATIC ELASTOMERS; STRAIN DISTRIBUTIONS; TEMPERATURE EVOLUTION;

CARBON NANOTUBES; ELASTOMERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

NANOCANTILEVERS;

EID: 84555197125     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3670502     Document Type: Article

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