Liquid crystals are fluids with 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 area 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 large opto-mechanical responses, shape change without energy cost (Soft elasticity), color 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 the theory 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 level and beyond.
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Mark Warner is a professor at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and has been awarded various prizes: IoP Maxwell Medal (1989), IoP Award for Public Awareness of Science (1999) and A.von Humboldt Prize (2000). Eugene Terentjev is a Reader in Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
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Liquid crystal elastomers bring together, as nowhere else, three important ideas: orientational order in amorphous soft materials, responsive molecular shape and quenched topological constraints. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nematic rubber, smectic elastomers, step length tensor, nematic elastomers, cholesteric elastomers, isotropic reference state, rubber moduli, pendant rods, director rotation, soft elasticity, elastic penalty, nematic networks, ordinary nematic liquid crystals, liquid crystal elastomers, director texture, monodomain elastomers, backbone anisotropy, cholesteric networks, local nematic order, soft deformations, chain anisotropy, liquid crystalline elastomers, continuum free energy, quenched sources, classical elastomers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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nematic rubber, smectic elastomers, step length tensor, nematic elastomers, cholesteric elastomers, isotropic reference state, rubber moduli, pendant rods, director rotation, soft elasticity, elastic penalty, nematic networks, ordinary nematic liquid crystals, liquid crystal elastomers, director texture, monodomain elastomers, backbone anisotropy, cholesteric networks, local nematic order, soft deformations, chain anisotropy, liquid crystalline elastomers, continuum free energy, quenched sources, classical elastomers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Liquid Crystals (Topics in Physical Chemistry) by Horst Stegemeyer in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Polymer Liquid Crystals (Materials science and technology series) by A. Ciferri in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Liquid Crystals by S. Chandrasekhar F.R.S. on page 1, and Back Matter
- Mathematical Methods for Physicists, Sixth Edition: A Comprehensive Guide by George B. Arfken in Back Matter
- Matrix Analysis by Roger A. Horn in Back Matter
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- Liquid Crystalline Polymers (Cambridge Solid State Science) by A. M. Donald on page 10, and page 435
- Elastomeric Proteins: Structures, Biomechanical Properties, and Biological Roles by Peter R. Shewry on page 308
- Rubberlike Elasticity: A Molecular Primer by James E. Mark in Back Matter
- Modeling of Soft Matter (The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications) by Maria-Carme T. Calderer on page 202
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