On the effect of strain rate during the cyclic compressive loading of liquid crystal elastomers and their 3D printed lattices

B Song, D Landry, T Martinez, CN Chung, KN Long… - Mechanics of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Nematic liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are a unique class of network polymers with the
potential for enhanced mechanical energy absorption and dissipation capacity over …

[HTML][HTML] A model for capturing the rate-dependent mechanical behaviour of liquid crystal elastomers

A Anssari-Benam, G Saccomandi - Mechanics of Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
A modelling framework is adopted and adapted here to model the rate-dependent
deformation behaviour of liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs). On using an isotropic …

Mesogen organizations in nematic liquid crystal elastomers under different deformation conditions

C Chung, H Jiang, K Yu - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) exhibit unique mechanical properties of soft elasticity and
reversible shape‐changing behaviors, and so serve as potentially transformative materials …

Nonlinear mechanical behaviour and visco-hyperelastic constitutive description of isotropic-genesis, polydomain liquid crystal elastomers at high strain rates

X Wang, J Han, H Xu, H Ji, Z Yue, R Zhang, B Li… - Journal of the …, 2024 - Elsevier
The mechanical behaviour of isotropic-genesis, polydomain liquid crystal elastomers (I-
PLCEs) at various strain rates is systematically investigated via experiments, theoretical …

[HTML][HTML] A modified semi-soft model of liquid crystal elastomers: Application to elastic and viscoelastic responses

Y Zhou, C Wei, L ** - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2025 - Elsevier
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are emerging actuating materials composed of polymer
networks and liquid crystal mesogens. A plateau in the stress-strain curve of LCEs, typical of …

Adjustable dual thermo/mechanochromic stimulus-responsive fluorescent chiral liquid crystal elastomers for information anti-counterfeiting

Z Huang, G Yang, H Luo, Z Lu, C Long, Z Huang… - Journal of Molecular …, 2025 - Elsevier
Herein, the adjustable dual stimulus-responsive fluorescent chiral liquid crystal elastomers
(FCLCEs) were firstly obtained by combining new fluorescent molecule dibenzo [b, d] furan …