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 …

Main chain liquid crystal elastomers exhibit several interesting phenomena, such as three
different regimes of elastic response, unconventional stress-strain relationship in one of …

With rapidly expanding interest in liquid crystalline polymers and elastomers among the
liquid crystal community, researchers are currently exploring the wide range of possible …

Liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) is soft active material, which can have large deformation
when subjected to various external stimuli. Due to the coupling between the orientation of …

Main-chain smectic-C liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) with varying crosslink densities
were prepared using a two stage hydrosilylation reaction scheme, in which diene mesogens …

In this paper, we study light-driven bending vibration of a liquid crystal elastomer (LCE)
beam. Inhomogeneous and time-dependent number fraction of photochromic liquid crystal …

A novel cross-linked smectic-C main-chain liquid-crystalline elastomer has been
synthesized by polycondensation of vinyloxy-terminated mesogens, tetramethyldisiloxane …

The polydomain–monodomain (PM) transformation takes place when a polydomain of a
smectic‐C main‐chain liquid‐crystalline elastomer (SmC MCLCE) is uniaxially stretched …

As an approach for electrically controllable actuators, we prepare elastomers of chiral
smectic-A liquid crystals, which have an electroclinic effect, ie, molecular tilt induced by an …

We study the mechanism of the polydomain-monodomain transition in liquid crystalline
elastomers at the molecular scale. A coarse-grained model is proposed in which mesogens …