Liquid Crystal Elastomers

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-852767-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 422 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 883 g

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Warner, Mark

Terentjev, Eugene Michael

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Mechanik Klassische Mechanik, Newtonsche Mechanik
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Chemie Allgemein Chemometrik, Chemoinformatik
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Computeranwendungen in der Technik
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Organische Chemie Polymerchemie
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Angewandte Mathematik, Mathematische Modelle
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Materialwissenschaft: Metallische Werkstoffe
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Angewandte Informatik Computeranwendungen in Wissenschaft & Technologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Metallurgie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Festkörperphysik, Kondensierte Materie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung Computer-Aided Design (CAD)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.