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Liquid Crystal Elastomers.

Liquid crystal elastomers are an entirely new physical system, 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, theoretica...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Warner, Mark
Otros Autores: Terentjev, E. M. (Eugene Michael)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, UK, 2007.
Colección:International Series of Monographs on Physics, No. 120.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 description of nematic elastomers; 11 Dynamics of liquid crystal elastomers; 12 Smectic elastomers; 13 Continuum description of smectic elastomers; References; Index; Author Index.