Figure 6: Customization of thermomechanical response. | Nature Communications

Figure 6: Customization of thermomechanical response.

From: Polymer-dispersed liquid crystal elastomers

Figure 6

(a) Thermomechanical, equivalently strain versus T response curves of nematic LCE-B1 and smectic A LCE-B2 used for preparation of the bimodal PDLCE composite. (b) Experimentally determined bimodal thermomechanical response of PDLCE-B, fitted by linear superposition model. Percentage strain 100(λ(T)−1) is shown in (a,b).

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