Memory and development of textures of polydomain nematic elastomers

Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 213, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 1907-1912

  Higaki, Haruko ^a   Urayama, Kenji ^a   Takigawa, Toshikazu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

elastomers; liquid crystal elastomers; liquid crystalline polymers; mechanical properties

Indexed keywords

IMPOSED STRAINS; INITIAL TEXTURES; LARGE DOMAIN; LIQUID CRYSTAL ELASTOMERS; MECHANICAL WORK; MONODOMAINS; NEMATIC ELASTOMERS; POLYDOMAIN; POLYDOMAIN TEXTURES; SCHLIEREN TEXTURES; TEXTURE DEVELOPMENT;

ELASTOMERS; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PLASTICS;

TEXTURES;

EID: 84866253166     PISSN: 10221352     EISSN: 15213935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/macp.201200239     Document Type: Article

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