Director orientation in deformed liquid crystal elastomer microparticles

Soft Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 159-165

  Kim, Chanjoong ^a   Mukherjee, Souptik ^a   Luchette, Paul ^a   Palffy Muhoray, Peter ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colloid; Finite element analysis; Liquid crystal elastomers; Microfluidics; Microparticles

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; ELASTOMERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; MICROFLUIDICS; PLASTICS; RUBBER;

DIRECTOR CONFIGURATION; DIRECTOR ORIENTATION; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; LIQUID CRYSTAL ELASTOMERS; MICRO-PARTICLES; MICROFLUIDIC TECHNIQUES; UNI-AXIAL COMPRESSION; UNIAXIAL COMPRESSIVE;

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 84987790554     PISSN: 1539445X     EISSN: 15394468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1539445X.2013.831358     Document Type: Article

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