Shape and chirality transitions in off-axis twist nematic elastomer ribbons

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

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Sawa, Yoshiki ^a   Urayama, Kenji ^a   Takigawa, Toshikazu ^a   Gimenez Pinto, Vianney ^b   Mbanga, Badel L ^b   Ye, Fangfu ^b   Selinger, Jonathan V ^b   Selinger, Robin L B ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANGE OF TEMPERATURES; DIRECTOR ORIENTATION; ENGINEERING DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; LEFT-HANDED TWIST; MACROSCOPIC CHIRALITY; SIMULATION STUDIES;

ASPECT RATIO; ELASTOMERS; EXPERIMENTS; PLASTICS;

CHIRALITY;

EID: 84883853059     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.88.022502     Document Type: Article

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