3 papers
cond-mat.soft2023
Lifting, Loading, and Buckling in Conical Shells
Daniel Duffy, Joselle M. McCracken, Tayler S. Hebner +2
Liquid crystal elastomer films that morph into cones are strikingly capable lifters. Thus motivated, we combine theory, numerics, and experiments to reexamine the load-bearing capa…
cond-mat.soft2022
Discontinuous metric programming in liquid crystalline elastomers
Tayler S. Hebner, Riley G. A. Bowman, Daniel Duffy +6
Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are shape-changing materials that exhibit large deformations in response to applied stimuli. Local control of the orientation of LCEs spatially…
cond-mat.soft2021
Retention and Deformation of the Blue Phases in Liquid Crystalline Elastomers
Kyle R. Schlafmann, Timothy J. White
The blue phases are observed in highly chiral liquid crystalline compositions that nascently organize into a three-dimensional, crystalline nanostructure. The periodicity of the un…