Liquid crystalline elastomers: dynamics and relaxation of microstructure
- 28 February 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Royal Society in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
- Vol. 361 (1805) , 653-664
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2002.1155
Abstract
The equilibrium mechanical response of nematic elastomers can be soft or hard depending on the relation between the imposed strains and the nematic director, in particular, if the local nematic dir...Keywords
This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
- Propagation of acoustic waves in nematic elastomersPhysical Review E, 2002
- Effect of the network on the director fluctuations in a nematic side-group elastomer analysed by static and dynamic light scatteringThe European Physical Journal E, 2001
- Anomalous Viscoelastic Response of Nematic ElastomersPhysical Review Letters, 2001
- Linear hydrodynamics and viscoelasticity of nematic elastomersThe European Physical Journal E, 2001
- Shear modulus of polydomain, mono-domain and non-mesomorphic side-chain elastomers: Influence of the nematic orderThe European Physical Journal E, 2001
- Liquid-crystalline elastomersJournal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 1999
- Slow Stress Relaxation in Randomly Disordered Nematic Elastomers and GelsPhysical Review Letters, 1998
- Stress relaxation of a main-chain, smectic, polydomain liquid crystalline elastomerPolymer, 1998
- Mechanical Behavior of Side-Chain Liquid Crystalline NetworksJournal de Physique II, 1996
- Rotational invariance and Goldstone modes in nematic elastomers and gelsJournal de Physique II, 1994