We study the monodomain (single-crystal) nematic elastomer materials, all side-chain siloxane polymers with the same mesogenic groups and crosslinking density, but differing in the type of crosslinking. Increasing the proportion of long di-functional segments of main-chain nematic polymer, acting as network crosslinking, results in dramatic changes in the uniaxial equilibrium thermal expansion on cooling from the isotropic phase. At higher concentration of main chains their behaviour dominates the elastomer properties. At low concentration of main-chain material, we detect two distinct transitions at different temperatures, one attributed to the main-chain, the other to the side-chain component. The effective uniaxial anisotropy of nematic ...
We investigate the behavior of the shear rigidity modulus G = G’ + iG” of three mono-domain side cha...
Abstract Thermo-mechanicaleffects of dry main-chainliquid crystal elastomers(MC-LCEs) with the diffe...
Abstract. Vertically aligned monodomain nematic liquid-crystal elastomers contract when heated. If a...
Abstract. We study the monodomain (single-crystal) nematic elastomer materials, all side-chain silox...
Liquid crystal (in particular, nematic) elastomers consist of cross-linked flexible polymer chains w...
Liquid crystal (in particular, nematic) elastomers consist of cross-linked flexible polymer chains w...
The influence of cross-linking on the phase behaviour of a series of side-chain liquid crystalline e...
The phase transition behaviour of various nematic side-chain liquid-crystalline elastomers with diff...
Nematic elastomers exhibit large, spontaneous shape changes at the transition from the high-temperat...
Nematic elastomers exhibit large, spontaneous shape changes at the transition from the high-temperat...
Liquid crystalline elastomers combine the ordering properties of liquid crystals with elasticity of ...
Abstract. – Single-crystal nematic elastomers undergo a transition from a strongly ordered phase N t...
Isotropic-genesis nematic elastomers (IGNEs) are liquid crystalline polymers (LCPs) that have been r...
Nematic elastomers (NE's) are polymer liquid crystals. They have mobile directors, which is cou...
Isotropic-genesis nematic elastomers (IGNEs) are materials that exhibit fascinating properties such ...
We investigate the behavior of the shear rigidity modulus G = G’ + iG” of three mono-domain side cha...
Abstract Thermo-mechanicaleffects of dry main-chainliquid crystal elastomers(MC-LCEs) with the diffe...
Abstract. Vertically aligned monodomain nematic liquid-crystal elastomers contract when heated. If a...
Abstract. We study the monodomain (single-crystal) nematic elastomer materials, all side-chain silox...
Liquid crystal (in particular, nematic) elastomers consist of cross-linked flexible polymer chains w...
Liquid crystal (in particular, nematic) elastomers consist of cross-linked flexible polymer chains w...
The influence of cross-linking on the phase behaviour of a series of side-chain liquid crystalline e...
The phase transition behaviour of various nematic side-chain liquid-crystalline elastomers with diff...
Nematic elastomers exhibit large, spontaneous shape changes at the transition from the high-temperat...
Nematic elastomers exhibit large, spontaneous shape changes at the transition from the high-temperat...
Liquid crystalline elastomers combine the ordering properties of liquid crystals with elasticity of ...
Abstract. – Single-crystal nematic elastomers undergo a transition from a strongly ordered phase N t...
Isotropic-genesis nematic elastomers (IGNEs) are liquid crystalline polymers (LCPs) that have been r...
Nematic elastomers (NE's) are polymer liquid crystals. They have mobile directors, which is cou...
Isotropic-genesis nematic elastomers (IGNEs) are materials that exhibit fascinating properties such ...
We investigate the behavior of the shear rigidity modulus G = G’ + iG” of three mono-domain side cha...
Abstract Thermo-mechanicaleffects of dry main-chainliquid crystal elastomers(MC-LCEs) with the diffe...
Abstract. Vertically aligned monodomain nematic liquid-crystal elastomers contract when heated. If a...