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Critical fluctuations and random-anisotropy glass transition in nematic elastomers
G. Feio, J. L. Figueirinhas, A. R. Tajbakhsh +1
We carry out a detailed deuterium NMR study of local nematic ordering in polydomain nematic elastomers. This system has a close analogy to the random-anisotropy spin glass. We find…
Chirality transfer and stereo-selectivity of imprinted cholesteric networks
S. Courty, A. R. Tajbakhsh, E. M. Terentjev
Imprinting of cholesteric textures in a polymer network is a method of preserving a macroscopically chiral phase in a system with no molecular chirality. By modifying the elastics…
Infrared actuation in aligned polymer-nanotube composites
S. V. Ahir, A. M. Squires, A. R. Tajbakhsh +1
Rubber composites containing multi-walled carbon nanotubes have been irradiated with near infrared light to study their reversible photo-mechanical actuation response. We demonstra…
Nematic elastomers with aligned carbon nanotubes: new electromechanical actuators
S. Courty, J. Mine, A. R. Tajbakhsh +1
We demonstrate, for the first time, the large electromechanical response in nematic liquid crystalline elastomers filled with a very low (~0.01%) concentration of carbon nanotubes,…
Phase chirality and stereo-selective swelling of cholesteric elastomers
S. Courty, A. R. Tajbakhsh, E. M. Terentjev
Cholesteric elastomers possess a macroscopic ``phase chirality'' as the director n rotates in a helical fashion along an optical axis and can be described by a chiral order par…
Stereo-selective swelling of imprinted cholesteric networks
S. Courty, A. R. Tajbakhsh, E. M. Terentjev
Molecular chirality, and the chiral symmetry breaking of resulting macroscopic phases, can be topologically imprinted and manipulated by crosslinking and swelling of polymer networ…