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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"liquid crystalline elastomers"”.
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Development of Liquid Crystalline Elastomers as Soft Mechanical Actuators
Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCE) are a class of loosely cross-linked rubbers that combine native liquid crystal phases (e.g., orientational order) and conventional elastomeric properties (e.g., rubber elasticity). Due to their ability to undergo spontaneous and reversible shape change when …
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Nonlinear macroscopic description of liquid crystalline elastomers in external fields
… of the macroscopic behavior of side-chain liquid single crystal elastomers (SCLSCEs). These materials consist of chemically crosslinked polymer backbones, to which mesogenic units are attached as side-groups. Due to specific routes of synthesis SCLSCEs feature a monodomain of the liquid …
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Liquid Crystalline Elastomers as Renewable Functional Materials: From Chemistry to Application
Liquid Crystalline Elastomers (LCEs) are thermosets that belong to the family of “smart plastics”. They combine the softness and elasticity of elastomers, with the orientational order properties of liquid crystals (LCs), resulting in the ability for these materials to undergo large reversible …
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Development of applications of liquid crystalline elastomers from Materials to Applications
Liquid crystalline elastomer (LCE) is a class of "smart polymer" with constituent molecules called mesogens, exhibiting orientational ordering. These mesogens can self-assemble into many types of ordering and transition to being isotropic reversibly subjected to external stimuli. In the last four …
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Entwicklung multi-stimuli sensitiver Materialien auf der Basis von flüssigkristallinen Elastomeren
Aufgrund der zunehmenden technischen Ansprüche der Gesellschaft sind sich aktiv bewegende Polymere in den Mittelpunkt aktueller Forschung gerückt. Diese spielen bei Anwen-dungen im Bereich von künstlichen Muskeln und Implantaten für die minimal invasive Chirurgie eine wichtige Rolle. Vor allem …