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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…
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…
Nematic elastomers with aligned carbon nanotubes: new electromechanical actuators
S. Courty, J. Mine, A. R. Tajbakhsh +1
We demonstrate, for the first time, the large electromechanical response in nematic liquid crystalline elastomers filled with a very low (~0.01%) concentration of carbon nanotubes,…
Phase chirality and stereo-selective swelling of cholesteric elastomers
S. Courty, A. R. Tajbakhsh, E. M. Terentjev
Cholesteric elastomers possess a macroscopic ``phase chirality'' as the director n rotates in a helical fashion along an optical axis and can be described by a chiral order par…
Stereo-selective swelling of imprinted cholesteric networks
S. Courty, A. R. Tajbakhsh, E. M. Terentjev
Molecular chirality, and the chiral symmetry breaking of resulting macroscopic phases, can be topologically imprinted and manipulated by crosslinking and swelling of polymer networ…