Coupled effects of director orientations and boundary conditions on light induced bending of monodomain nematic liquid crystalline polymer plates

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  You, Yue ^a   Xu, Changwei ^b   Ding, Shurong ^a   Huo, Yongzhong ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING BEHAVIOR; COUPLED EFFECT; DIRECTOR ORIENTATION; HOMEOTROPIC; LIGHT-INDUCED BENDING; MECHANICAL ENERGIES; MONODOMAINS; NEMATIC NETWORKS;

ASPECT RATIO; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MACHINE DESIGN;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

EID: 84868562779     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/21/12/125012     Document Type: Article

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