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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES
Volume 466, Issue 2122, Pages 2975-2989Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2010.0135
Keywords
nematic; glasses; spontaneous; distortions; curvature
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- EPSRC [EP/F013787/1, EP/E051251/1]
- EPSRC [EP/F013787/1, EP/F032773/1, EP/E051251/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/F032773/1, EP/E051251/1, EP/F013787/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Nematic elastic bodies can develop a gradient of response to heat, light and other stimuli. They then bend and develop curvature in a complex manner depending on director field distributions, on whether they are monodomain or polydomain structures and on linear or nonlinear light absorptive processes. In each case, we derive the general weak response where bend in each direction is treated independently of that in others. In a subsequent paper, we address the reverse phenomenon, that is of strong spontaneous distortion leading to curvature suppression.
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