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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…
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,…
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…
UV-Manipulation of Order and Macroscopic Shape in Nematic Elastomers
P. M. Hogan, A. R. Tajbakhsh, E. M. Terentjev
A range of monodomain nematic liquid crystal elastomers containing differing proportions of photo-isomerisable mesogenic moieties, which turn from a rod-like to a kinked shape upon…