Liquid Crystal Elastomers

Zusatztext In short, this book is likely to become a classic: read it, learn from it, and let it inspire you. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Liquid crystals are fluids with 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 area combination of all these curiousaspects! 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)! color 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 thereader can become proficient in the field himself. The book is directed at physicists! chemists! material scientists! engineers and applied mathematicians at the graduate level and beyond. Zusammenfassung Talking about liquid crystals, polymers, rubber, and elasticity, this book reviews experimental techniques and results, and describes theoretical ideas, illustrating them by solved examples and nearly 200 figures. It is aimed at physicists, chemists, material scientists, engineers and applied mathematicians at the graduate student level.

Product details

• Authors: E. M. Terentjev, Eugene Michael Terentjev, Terentjev Eugene Michael, M. Warner, Mark Warner, Mark Terentjev Warner
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2003
• EAN: 9780198527671
• ISBN: 978-0-19-852767-1
• No. of pages: 422
• Series: International Series of Monographs on Physics; International Series of Monogr; International Series of Monogr; International Series of Monographs on Physics; International Monographs on Ph
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mechanical, MATHEMATICS / Applied, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Organic, SCIENCE / Physics / Condensed Matter, SCIENCE / Mechanics / Solids, Mechanics of solids, Applied mathematics, Polymer chemistry, Engineering: Mechanics of solids