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Microstructure-enabled control of wrinkling in nematic elastomer sheets
Paul Plucinsky, Kaushik Bhattacharya
Nematic elastomers are rubbery solids which have liquid crystals incorporated into their polymer chains. These materials display many unusual mechanical properties, one such being…
Actuation of thin nematic elastomer sheets with controlled heterogeneity
Paul Plucinsky, Marius Lemm, Kaushik Bhattacharya
Nematic elastomers and glasses deform spontaneously when subjected to temperature changes. This property can be exploited in the design of heterogeneously patterned thin sheets tha…
Programming complex shapes in thin nematic elastomer and glass sheets
Paul Plucinsky, Marius Lemm, Kaushik Bhattacharya
Nematic elastomers and glasses are solids that display spontaneous distortion under external stimuli. Recent advances in the synthesis of sheets with controlled heterogeneities hav…