Liquid Crystal Elastomers
Series: International Series of Monographs on Physics; 120;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 October 2003
- ISBN 9780198527671
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages422 pages
- Size 242x161x25 mm
- Weight 883 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous figures & halftones 0
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Short description:
Liquid crystal elastomers are an entirely new physical system with unique properties occupying a transitional zone between liquids and solids. This book is the foundation treatise in this emerging field of combined chemistry, physics, mathematics and engineering. It reviews experimental techniques and results and describes theoretical ideas, illustrating them by solved examples and nearly 200 figures. In addition, the book reviews the foundations of the field: the physics of liquid crystals, polymer physics and foundations of elasticity, thus making a useful and concise reference source.
MoreLong description:
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
In short, this book is likely to become a classic: read it, learn from it, and let it inspire you.
Table of Contents:
A bird's eye view of liquid crystal elastomers
Liquid crystals
Polymers, elastomers and rubber elasticity
Classical elasticity
Nematic elastomers
Nematic rubber elasticity
Soft elasticity
Distortions of nematic elastomers
Cholesteric elastomers
Continuum theory of nematic elastomers
Dynamics of liquid crystal elastomers
Smectic elastomers
Nematic order in elastomers under strain
Biaxial soft elasticity
Stripe microstructure
Couple-stress and Cosserat elasticity
Expansion at small deformations and rotations
