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Liquid-crystal gels

Bridging the experiment–theory gap

Nature Materials volume 3, pages 139–140 (2004)Cite this article

A new generation of liquid-crystal gels provides ideal models to study the unique phenomena arising from the combination of molecular orientation and elastic strain.

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Figure 1: Coupling orientation and translation.

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    Robert B. Meyer

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