TY - JOUR
T1 - Elastic interactions in nematic elastomers and gels
AU - Uchida, N.
AU - Onuki, A.
N1 - Funding Information:
parts of the work described were supported by NIH Grants HL-18003 and HL-23893.
PY - 1999/2/1
Y1 - 1999/2/1
N2 - We investigate elastic interactions in nematic elastomers and gels using a Ginzburg-Landau model for the isotropic-nematic transition. We propose an elastic origin of the "four-leaf clover" pattern observed in depolarised light scattering from polydomain nematic elastomers. We also investigate the director fluctuation in the nematic phase. Aligned nematic states are found to be unstable below a critical elongation.
AB - We investigate elastic interactions in nematic elastomers and gels using a Ginzburg-Landau model for the isotropic-nematic transition. We propose an elastic origin of the "four-leaf clover" pattern observed in depolarised light scattering from polydomain nematic elastomers. We also investigate the director fluctuation in the nematic phase. Aligned nematic states are found to be unstable below a critical elongation.
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U2 - 10.1209/epl/i1999-00169-0
DO - 10.1209/epl/i1999-00169-0
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0033068242
VL - 45
SP - 341
EP - 347
JO - Journal de Physique (Paris), Lettres
JF - Journal de Physique (Paris), Lettres
SN - 0295-5075
IS - 3
ER -