Liquid crystals are fluids with a directionality defined. Polymers are long molecules with a shape that can be changed. As a network, polymers form rubber – a soft solid that is locally liquid-like and capable of huge extension. Liquid crystal elastomers are a combination of all these curious aspects, but with additional, revolutionary new phenomena – for example, spontaneous shape changes of several hundred percent induced by temperature change, with equally largeopto-mechanical responses, shape change without energy cost (“soft elasticity”), colour change with strain, lasing and photonics, sensitivity to molecular handedness and soft solid ferroelectricity. This book is a primer for liquid crystals, polymers, rubber, and elasticity. It then describes thetheory and experiment of these remarkable materials for the first time as a monograph. Worked examples are solved so that the reader can become proficient in the field himself. The book is directed at physicists, chemists, material scientists, engineers and applied mathematicians at the graduate student level and beyond
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Author: Mark Warner; Eugene Michael Terentjev Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 9780191523632 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: October 2003 422 pages
Professor Mark WarnerCavendish LaboratoryUniversity of CambridgeProfessor Eugene Michael TerentjevSector of Biological & Soft SystemsCavendish LaboratoryUniversity of Cambridge
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