Mistry, D orcid.org/0000-0003-0012-6781 (Cover date: 2021) The richness of liquid crystal elastomer mechanics keeps growing. Liquid Crystals Today, 30 (4). pp. 59-66. ISSN 1358-314X
Abstract
In recent years, the field of liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) has grown considerably in size. Applications for these materials promise to be imminent, and yet many unknowns still surround some of their fundamental behaviours. In addition, new thermal and mechanical properties are continually being discovered. In this article, I review and summarise the key properties of an acrylate LCE developed during my PhD and compare them to the material from which it was derived – developed by the Uryama group. I highlight our material’s surprising negative Poission’s ratio and templateable properties and explore the possible structural roots of these behaviours.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | liquid crystal elastomers, polymers, auxetic, mechanical properties, negative Poisson's ratio |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Physics and Astronomy (Leeds) > Soft Matter Physics (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Leverhulme Trust Not Known |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 07 Mar 2022 12:38 |
Last Modified: | 27 Sep 2023 12:06 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/1358314X.2022.2048974 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:184364 |
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