Polymer-dispersed liquid crystal elastomers

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Rešetič, Andraž ^a   Milavec, Jerneja ^a   Zupančič, Blaž ^a   Domenici, Valentina ^b   Zalar, Boštjan ^a  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTOMER; POLYMER;

COLLOID; COMPOSITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GAUSSIAN METHOD; MAGNETIC FIELD; MANUFACTURING; NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER; THERMOMECHANICS;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; CROSS LINKING; DISPERSION; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MAGNETIC FIELD; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84990246253     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13140     Document Type: Article

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