Polydomains in liquid-crystal elastomers
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Alexandra ten Bosch; Lionel Varichon
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Article
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1994
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract In liquidβcrystal elastomers, the simultaneous presence of rubber elasticity due to the crosslinked backbone chains and of optical birefringence due to the mesogens in the side chains lead to exceptional physical properties. An elastic deformation of the network influences the order of