Modeling the polydomain-monodomain transition of liquid crystal elastomers

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Whitmer, Jonathan K ^a   Roberts, Tyler F ^a   Shekhar, Raj ^a   Abbott, Nicholas L ^a   De Pablo, Juan J ^b,c  

^a Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ROTATION; COARSE GRAINED MODELS; DOMAIN GROWTH; ELLIPSOIDAL PARTICLES; GROWTH DYNAMICS; LIQUID CRYSTAL ELASTOMERS; LIQUID CRYSTALLINE ELASTOMERS; MESOGENS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MOLECULAR LEVELS; MOLECULAR SCALE; MONODOMAINS; POLYDOMAIN STATE; SIDE-CHAIN ELASTOMERS; SOFT ELASTICITY; UNI-AXIAL STRAINS; UNIAXIAL EXTENSION;

ELASTICITY; ELASTOMERS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

ELASTOMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL; METHODOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELASTOMERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PHASE TRANSITION;

EID: 84874523700     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.87.020502     Document Type: Article

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