Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 641 g
Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 641 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-921486-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford
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.
Fachgebiete
- Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Festkörperphysik, Kondensierte Materie
- Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Oberflächen- und Grenzflächenphysik, Dünne Schichten
- Naturwissenschaften Chemie Anorganische Chemie Festkörperchemie
- Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Physik der Zustandsübergänge
- Naturwissenschaften Chemie Organische Chemie Polymerchemie
Weitere Infos & Material
- 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
- ONLINE APPENDICES
- 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
- F: Smectic C soft elasticity
