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Electro-Opto-Mechanical Effects in Swollen Nematic Elastomers

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Liquid Crystal Elastomers: Materials and Applications

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Acknowledgments

The author thanks Y. O. Arai, H. Kondo, S. Honda, A. Fukunaga, S. Kohjiya, and T. Takigawa for their great contributions to the experiments. The author appreciates P. Koelsch for his crucial comment in polarized FT-IR. The author also thanks A. DeSimone and L. Teresi for their principal contribution to the modeling. The author is grateful for a Grant-in-Aid in the Priority Area “Soft Matter Physics” (No. 21015014) and a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (No. 21350123). Valuable support was also received from the Global COE Program “International Center for Integrated Research and Advanced Education in Materials Science” (No. B-09) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.

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    Kenji Urayama

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Urayama, K. (2010). Electro-Opto-Mechanical Effects in Swollen Nematic Elastomers. In: de Jeu, W. (eds) Liquid Crystal Elastomers: Materials and Applications. Advances in Polymer Science, vol 250. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/12_2010_107

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