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cond-mat.soft2026
Time-temperature-composition equivalence of the glass transition in digitally mixed 3D-printed polymers
Beijun Shen, Sanat K. Kumar, Mary C. Boyce
For more than seventy years, time-temperature equivalence (TTE) has enabled a few measurements to describe the linear viscoelasticity of polymers over many decades of frequency. Mu…
cond-mat.soft2026
Thermoviscoelasticity of polydomain liquid crystal elastomers regulated by soft elasticity
Zhengxuan Wei, Beijun Shen, Zumrat Usmanova +2
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are elastomeric networks with rod-like mesogens that reorient under load. In polydomain LCEs, this reorientation drives a polydomain-to-monodomain…
cond-mat.soft2025
Tension-Induced Soft Stress and Viscoelastic Bending in Liquid Crystal Elastomers for Enhanced Energy Dissipation
Beijun Shen, Yuefeng Jiang, Christopher M. Yakacki +2
Architected materials that exploit buckling instabilities to reversibly trap energy have been shown to be effective for impact protection. The energy-absorbing capabilities of thes…