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 large opto-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 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 student level and beyond
| ISBN | 0199214867 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9780199214860
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 716 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press | | Published in | Oxford | | Imprint | Oxford University Press | | Series ISSN | 120 | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | International Series of Monographs on Physics | | Publication date | 05 Apr 2007 | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Library of Congress | QD923 | | Width (mm) | 156 | | DEWEY | 530.429 | | Spine width (mm) | 21 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly | | Pages | 432 | |
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1. A bird's eye view of liquid crystal elastomers; 2. Liquid crystals; 3. Polymers, elastomers and rubber elasticity; 4. Classical elasticity; 5. Nematic elastomers; 6. Nematic rubber elasticity; 7. Soft elasticity; 8. Distortions of nematic elastomers; 9. Cholesteric elastomers; 10. Continuum theory of nematic elastomers; 11. Dynamics of liquid crystal elastomers; 12. Smectic elastomers; A. Nematic order in elastomers under strain; B. Biaxial soft elasticity; C. Stripe microstructure; D. Couple-stress and Cosserat elasticity; E. Expansion at small deformations and rotations
In short, this book is likely to become a classic: read it, learn from it, and let it inspire you. Euro Pysics News
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