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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…
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…
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…
Patterning nonisometric origami in nematic elastomer sheets
Paul Plucinsky, Benjamin A. Kowalski, Timothy J. White +1
Nematic elastomers dramatically change their shape in response to diverse stimuli including light and heat. In this paper, we provide a systematic framework for the design of compl…
Curvature by design and on demand in liquid crystal elastomers
Benjamin A. Kowalski, Cyrus Mostajeran, Nicholas P. Godman +2
The shape of liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) with spatial variation in the director orientation can be transformed by exposure to a stimulus. Here, informed by previously repo…
Encoding Gaussian curvature in glassy and elastomeric liquid crystal polymer networks
Cyrus Mostajeran, Taylor H. Ware, Timothy J. White
Considerable recent attention has been given to the study of shape formation using modern responsive materials that can be preprogrammed to undergo spatially inhomogeneous local de…