Liquid Crystal Elastomers: Materials and Applications

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: de Jeu, Wim H. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Advances in Polymer Science, 250
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Polymers.; Condensed matter.; Phase transitions (Statistical physics).; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Nanotechnology.; Materials science.; Polymer Sciences.; Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.

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 Kenj...

Table of Contents:

• Preparation of Liquid Crystalline Elastomers, by F. Brömmel, D. Kramer, H. Finkelmann
• Applications of Liquid Crystalline Elastomers, by C. Ohm, M. Brehmer and 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 and Bostjan Zalar
• Order and Disorder in Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers, by Wim H. de Jeu and Boris I. Ostrovskii.-.