| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L03699/01 |
| Title: |
EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL STUDY OF RANDOM DISORDER IN LIQUID CRYSTALLINE ELASTOMERS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Terentjev, Professor E |
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Physics |
| Organisation: |
University of Cambridge |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 February 1997 |
Ends: |
31 January 1999 |
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80,072
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| Materials Characterisation |
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The programme represents a combined theoretical and experimental approach to the fundamental and little-studied problem of quenched disorder in systems with broken symmetry. Using new and exciting materials - liquid crystalline elastomers - we shall analyse the structure resulting from the varying conditions of preparation, and under application of external stress field. We shall analyse in detail and tie together the theoretical predictions and scattering structural data, and draw fundamental conclusions on the relationship between the state of order and microscopic properties of elastomers, as well as a broader group of objects. Results will also be applied to practical problems of order in liquid crystalline polymers filled with external particles, and to the problem of detecting the local stress distribution around cracks and other regions of concentrated deformations.
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