Elasticity of polydomain liquid crystal elastomers

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 573-590

  Biggins, J S ^a   Warner, M ^b   Bhattacharya, K ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crystal; Elastomer; Liquid; Mechanics; Polydomain

Indexed keywords

DIRECTOR PATTERNS; ELECTRICAL ACTUATION; EQUILIBRATED STRESS; FINE-SCALE STRUCTURES; HIGH SYMMETRY; ISOTROPIC STATE; LARGE DEFORMATIONS; LIQUID CRYSTAL ELASTOMERS; LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE; LOW FIELD; LOW STRESS; MONODOMAINS; NONIDEALITY; POLYDOMAIN; POLYDOMAIN STATE; POLYMER CHAINS; SCHLIEREN TEXTURES; SOFT BEHAVIOR; STRAIN FIELDS;

CRYSTALS; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; ELASTOMERS; LIQUIDS; MECHANICS; PLASTICS;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

EID: 84856692363     PISSN: 00225096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2012.01.008     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. J.M. Adams, S. Conti, and A. DeSimone Soft elasticity and microstructure in smectic c elastomers J. Cont. Mech. Thermodyn. 18 2006 319 334
2. J.M. Adams, and M. Warner Mechanical switching of ferroelectric rubber Phys. Rev. E 79 2009 061704 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.061704
3. SmC elastomers Macromol. Rapid Commun. 15 4 1994 295 302
4. K. Bhattacharya Microstructure of Martensite 2003 Oxford University Press Oxford
5. K. Bhattacharya, and R.V. Kohn Energy minimization and the recoverable strains of polycrystalline shape-memory alloys Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 139 1997 99 180 (Pubitemid 127370896)
6. J.S. Biggins, E.M. Terentjev, and M. Warner Semisoft elastic response of nematic elastomers to complex deformations Phys. Rev. E 78 2008 041704
7. J.S. Biggins, M. Warner, and K. Bhattacharya Supersoft elasticity in polydomain nematic elastomers Phys. Rev. Lett. 103 2009 037802
8. P. Bladon, E.M. Terentjev, and M. Warner Transitions and instabilities in liquid-crystal elastomers Phys. Rev. E 47 1993 3838 3840
9. N.A. Clark, and S.T. Lagerwall Submicrosecond bistable electro-optic switching in liquid-crystals Appl. Phys. Lett. 36 1980 899 901
10. S.M. Clarke, A. Hotta, A.R. Tajbakhsh, and E.M. Terentjev Effect of crosslinker geometry on equilibrium thermal and mechanical properties of nematic elastomers Phys. Rev. E 64 6 2001 061702
11. S.M. Clarke, and E.M. Terentjev Slow stress relaxation in randomly disordered nematic elastomers and gels Phys. Rev. Lett. 81 1998 4436 4439 (Pubitemid 128630832)
12. S.M. Clarke, E.M. Terentjev, I. Kundler, and H. Finkelmann Texture evolution during the polydomainmonodomain transition in nematic elastomers Macromolecules 31 1998 4862 4872 (Pubitemid 128565502)
13. S. Conti, A. DeSimone, and G. Dolzmann Semisoft elasticity and director reorientation in stretched sheets of nematic elastomers Phys. Rev. E 66 6 2002 061710
14. S. Conti, A. DeSimone, and G. Dolzmann Soft elastic response of stretched sheets of nematic elastomers: a numerical study J. Mech. Phys. Solids 50 6 2002 1431 1451 (Pubitemid 34551827)
15. A. Desimone Energetics of fine domain structures Ferroelectrics 222 1 1999 275 284 (Pubitemid 129660157)
16. A. DeSimone, and G. Dolzmann Macroscopic response of nematic elastomers via relaxation of a class of so invariant energies Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 161 2002 181 204 (Pubitemid 36185875)
17. J.L. Ericksen Some phase transitions in crystals Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 73 1980 99 124
18. H. Finkelmann, H.J. Kock, and G. Rehage Investigations on liquid crystalline polysiloxanes, 3. Liquid crystalline elastomers-a new type of liquid crystalline material Makromol. Chem. Rapid Commun. 2 1981 317 322
19. H. Finkelmann, I. Kundler, E.M. Terentjev, and M. Warner Critical stripe-domain instability of nematic elastomers J. Phys. II 7 1997 1059 1069
20. P. Fischer, C. Schmidt, and H. Finkelmann Amphiphilic liquid-crystalline networks-phase behavior and alignment by mechanical fields Macromol. Rapid Commun. 16 6 1995 435 447
21. S.V. Fridrikh, and E.M. Terentjev Polydomainmonodomain transition in nematic elastomers Phys. Rev. E 60 2 Pt B 1999 1847 1857
22. S.V. Fridrikh, and E.M. Terentjev Orderdisorder transition in an external field in random ferromagnets and nematic elastomers Phys. Rev. Lett. 79 23 1997 4661 4664 (Pubitemid 127645296)
23. E. Fried Disclinated states in nematic elastomers J. Mech. Phys. Solids 50 2002 2691 2716 (Pubitemid 35152377)
24. C. Godreche, J.P. Bouchaud, and M. Mezard Entropy barriers and slow relaxation in some random walk models J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 28 1995 L603 L611
25. J. Goldstone, A. Salam, and S. Weinberg Broken symmetries Phys. Rev. 127 3 1962 965 970
26. L. Golubovic, and T.C. Lubensky Nonlinear elasticity of amorphous solids Phys. Rev. Lett. 63 1989 1082 1085
27. K. Hiraoka, W. Sagano, T. Nose, and H. Finkelmann Biaxial shape memory effect exhibited by monodomain chiral smectic C elastomers Macromolecules 38 17 2005 7352 7357 (Pubitemid 41305035)
28. A. Hotta, and E.M. Terentjev Long-time stress relaxation in polyacrylate nematic liquid crystalline elastomers J. Phys. C: Condens. Matter 13 2001 11453 11464 (Pubitemid 34047070)
29. R.D. James Displacive phase transformations in solids J. Mech. Phys. Solids 34 1986 359 394
30. I. Kundler, and H. Finkelmann Director reorientation via stripe-domains in nematic elastomers: influence of cross-link density, anisotropy of the network and smectic clusters Macromol. Chem. Phys. 199 1998 677 686 (Pubitemid 128476495)
31. J. Küpfer, and H. Finkelmann Nematic liquid single crystal elastomers Makromol. Chem. Rapid Commun. 12 12 1991 717 726
32. J. Küpfer, and H. Finkelmann Liquid-crystal-elastomers-influence of the orientational distribution of the cross-links on the phase-behavior and reorientation processes Makromol. Chem. Phys. 195 1994 1353 1367
33. J.Y. Li, R.C. Rogan, E. Ustundag, and K. Bhattacharya Domain switching in polycrystalline ferroelectric ceramics Nat. Mater. 4 2005 776 781 (Pubitemid 41397027)
34. R.B. Meyer, L. Liebert, L. Strzelecki, and P. Keller Ferroelectric liquid-crystals J. Phys. Lett. 36 1975 L69 L71
35. P.D. Olmsted Rotational invariance and Goldstone modes in nematic elastomers and gels J. Phys. II (France) 4 1994 2215 2230
36. P. Ponte Castañeda The overall constitutive behavior of nonlinearly elastic composites Proc. R. Soc. London A 422 1862 1989 147 171
37. G.I. Taylor Plastic strain in metals J. Inst. Metals 62 1936 307 324
38. N. Uchida Elastic effects in disordered nematic networks Phys. Rev. E 60 1999 R13 R16
39. N. Uchida Soft and nonsoft structural transitions in disordered nematic networks Phys. Rev. E 62 2000 5119 5136
40. N. Uchida, and A. Onuki Elastic interactions in nematic elastomers and gels Europhys. Lett. 45 1999 341 347
41. K. Urayama, S. Honda, and T. Takigawa Deformation coupled to director rotation in swollen nematic elastomers under electric fields Macromolecules 39 5 2006 1943 1949
42. K. Urayama, E. Kohmon, M. Kojima, and T. Takigawa Polydomainmonodomain transition of randomly disordered nematic elastomers with different cross-linking histories Macromolecules 42 2009 4084 4089
43. G.C. Verwey, and M. Warner Nematic elastomers cross-linked by rigid rod linkers Macromolecules 30 14 1997 4196 4204 (Pubitemid 127577015)
44. G.C. Verwey, M. Warner, and E.M. Terentjev Elastic instability and stripe domain in liquid crystalline elastomers J. Phys. II (France) 6 1996 1273 1290 (Pubitemid 126796092)
45. M. Warner, P. Bladon, and E.M. Terentjev Soft elasticity-deformation without resistance in liquid-crystal elastomers J. Phys. II (France) 4 1994 93 102
46. M. Warner, and E.M. Terentjev Liquid Crystal Elastomers second ed. 2007 Oxford University Press Oxford
47. E.R. Zubarev, S.A. Kuptsov, T.I. Yuranova, R.V. Talroze, and H. Finkelmann Monodomain liquid crystalline networks: reorientation mechanism from uniform to stripe domains Liquid Crystals 26 10 1999 1531 1540