Liquid Crystal Elastomers

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-921486-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, Band 120, 424 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 641 g

Reihe: International Series of Monographs on Physics

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 Chemie Organische Chemie Polymerchemie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Physik der Zustandsübergänge
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Anorganische Chemie Festkörperchemie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Oberflächen- und Grenzflächenphysik, Dünne Schichten
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Festkörperphysik, Kondensierte Materie

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Mark Warner
Cavendish Laboratory
University of Cambridge

Professor Eugene Michael Terentjev
Sector of Biological & Soft Systems
Cavendish Laboratory
University of Cambridge