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Cholesteric Liquid Single‐Crystal Elastomers (LSCE) Obtained by the Anisotropic Deswelling Method
Author(s) -
Kim Sung Tae,
Finkelmann Heino
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
macromolecular rapid communications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.348
H-Index - 154
eISSN - 1521-3927
pISSN - 1022-1336
DOI - 10.1002/1521-3927(20010301)22:6<429::aid-marc429>3.0.co;2-#
Subject(s) - elastomer , materials science , liquid crystal , anisotropy , composite material , polymer science , polymer chemistry , optics , physics , optoelectronics
Cholesteric liquid single‐crystal elastomers (LSCE) were obtained by an anisotropic deswelling method. The resulting network is investigated by means of optical microscopy and X‐ray measurements, which reveals that this orientation method is suitable to obtain a highly ordered cholesteric LSCE with the helical axis being perpendicular to the biaxial extension axis.