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Nematic-Isotropic Transition with Quenched Disorder
L. Petridis, E. M. Terentjev
Nematic elastomers do not show the discontinuous, first-order, phase transition that the Landau-De Gennes mean field theory predicts for a quadrupolar ordering in 3D. We attribute…
Quenched disorder and spin-glass correlations in XY nematics
L. Petridis, E. M. Terentjev
We present a theoretical study of the equilibrium ordering in a 3D XY nematic system with quenched random disorder. Within this model, treated with the replica trick and Gaussian v…
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…
Concentration-Temperature Superposition of Helix Folding Rates in Gelatin
J. L. Gornall, E. M. Terentjev
We study the kinetics of helix-coil transition in water solutions of gelatin (collagen protein) by optical rotation techniques combined with thermal characterization. By examining…
Mechanically induced helix-coil transition in biopolymer networks
S. Courty, J. L. Gornall, E. M. Terentjev
The quasi-equilibrium evolution of the helical fraction occurring in a biopolymer network (gelatin gel) under an applied stress has been investigated by observing modulation in its…
Rheology of carbon nanotube dispersions
Y. Y. Huang, S. V. Ahir, E. M. Terentjev
We report on rheological properties of a dispersion of multi-walled carbon nanotubes in a viscous polymer matrix. Particular attention is paid to the process of nanotubes mixing an…