Internal constraints and arrested relaxation in main-chain nematic elastomers

Takuya Ohzono; Kaoru Katoh; Hiroyuki Minamikawa; Mohand O. Saed; Eugene M. Terentjev

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-21036-3

Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Internal constraints and arrested relaxation in main-chain nematic elastomers

Takuya Ohzono,
Kaoru Katoh,
Hiroyuki Minamikawa,
Mohand O. Saed,
Eugene M. Terentjev

Affiliations

Takuya Ohzono: Research Institute for Electronics and Photonics, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Kaoru Katoh: Biomedical Research Institute, AIST
Hiroyuki Minamikawa: Research Institute for Sustainable Chemistry, AIST
Mohand O. Saed: Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Eugene M. Terentjev: Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21036-3
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Nematic liquid crystal elastomers (N-LCE) have a slow relaxation, which can prevent their shape recovery. Here, the authors examine mechanical hysteresis in a series of main-chain N-LCE to understand how the inherent nematic order retards and arrests the equilibration.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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