Liquid Crystal Elastomers: Materials and Applications

✍ Scribed by F. Brömmel, D. Kramer, H. Finkelmann (auth.), Wim H. de Jeu (eds.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 244
Series: Advances in Polymer Science 250
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Preparation of Liquid Crystalline Elastomers, by F. Brömmel, D. Kramer, H. Finkelmann Applications of Liquid Crystalline Elastomers, by C. Ohm, M. Brehmer und R. Zentel Liquid Crystal Elastomers and Light, by Peter Palffy-Muhoray Electro-Opto-Mechanical Effects in Swollen Nematic Elastomers, by Kenji Urayama The Isotropic-to-Nematic Conversion in Liquid Crystalline Elastomers, by Andrija Lebar, George Cordoyiannis, Zdravko Kutnjak und Bostjan Zalar Order and Disorder in Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers, by Wim H. de Jeu und Boris I. Ostrovskii

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Preparation of Liquid Crystalline Elastomers....Pages 1-48
Applications of Liquid Crystalline Elastomers....Pages 49-93
Liquid Crystal Elastomers and Light....Pages 95-118
Electro-Opto-Mechanical Effects in Swollen Nematic Elastomers....Pages 119-145
The Isotropic-to-Nematic Conversion in Liquid Crystalline Elastomers....Pages 147-185
Order and Disorder in Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers....Pages 187-234
Erratum to: Order and Disorder in Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers....Pages 235-235
Back Matter....Pages 237-239

✦ Subjects

Polymer Sciences;Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems;Characterization and Evaluation of Materials;Condensed Matter Physics;Nanotechnology;Physical Chemistry

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