Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are crosslinked polymer networks that combine the
elastic properties of rubber with the anisotropic properties of liquid crystals. Multifunctionality …

Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are a type of material with specific features of polymers and
of liquid crystals. They exhibit interesting behaviors, ie, they are able to change their …

Liquid crystal elastomers (LCE) are elastomeric networks with mesogen moieties that can
reorient and order in response to thermomechanical loads. Experiments have shown that …

Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are polymeric materials that combine liquid crystal
orientation and rubber elasticity. The mechanical responses of LCEs strongly depend on the …

We have investigated the thermally induced bending deformation of nematic elastomers with
hybrid alignment (HNEs) where the director continuously rotates by 90°(from planar …

We discuss a reduced model to compute the motion of slender swimmers which propel
themselves by propagating a bending wave along their body. Our approach is based on the …

We derive a Föppl-von Kármán-type constitutive model for solid liquid crystalline plates
where the nematic director may or may not rotate freely relative to the elastic network. To …

Continuum models describing ideal nematic solids are widely used in theoretical studies of
liquid crystal elastomers. However, experiments on nematic elastomers show a type of …

We derive a general constitutive model for nematic liquid crystalline rods. Our approach
consists in reducing the three-dimensional strain-energy density of a nematic cylindrical …

We establish that, for ideal unconstrained uniaxial nematic elastomers described by a
homogeneous isotropic strain-energy density function, the only smooth deformations that …