The 9th International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling

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Symposium

H. Multiscale Mechanics of Polymers, Soft Matter and Network Materials

[SY-H3] Symposium H-3

2018年10月31日(水) 09:45 〜 11:00 Room9

Chair: Hansohl Cho(Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States of America)

[SY-H3] Polydomain liquid crystal elastomers1

Invited

Kaushik Bhattacharya (California Institute of Technology, United States of America)

Liquid crystal elastomers are rubbery solids with liquid crystal mesogens incorporated into their main chains. They display an isotropic to nematic phase transformation accompanied by a large spontaneous deformation. Depending on how these liquid crystal elastomers are synthesized, they can either be a mono domain (uniform liquid crystal order) or polydomain (nonuniform liquid crystal order). This talk will describe various phenomena and modeling questions related to the effective behavior of polydomain liquid crystal elastomers1