Unit 1 Preparation of Liquid Crystalline Elastomers

6 lecture hours

• Synthesis of LC Polymer Networks
• Side Chain Elastomers
• Main Chain Elastomers
• Basic Characterization of LC Networks

Unit 2 Mechanical Orientation Behavior

6 lecture hours

• Chain Conformation of Linear Polymers
• Orientation of Polydomain Networks

Unit 3 Liquid Single Crystal Elastomers

6 lecture hours

• Permanent Orientation of the Main Axis
• Coupling to the Chain Anisotropy
• Coupling to LC Properties
• More Complex Orientation Methods
• Orientation of the Second Director
• Orientation of the Layer Normal in SC LSCEs

Unit 4 Applications of Liquid Crystalline Elastomers

8 lecture hours

• Preconditions for Selecting LC Elastomers
• Actuators Powered by a Phase Transition
• Designing Actuators with Defined Specifications
• Introduction of Actuator Systems
• LC Elastomer Devices

Unit 5 Liquid Crystal Elastomers in Electric Fields

• Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals and Their Networks
• Preparation of FLCEs
• Electromechanical Properties of FLCEs

Unit 6 Liquid Crystal Elastomers and Light

6 lecture hours

• Orientational Order
• Liquid Crystal Elastomers

Unit 7 The Effects of LCEs on Light

• Refractive Indices
• Polydomain LCEs
• Gels, and LC Networks
• Lasing in Cholesteric LCEs
• Optical Properties of Cholesterics
• Distributed Feedback Lasing in Cholesteric LCEs
• Non- lasing Applications. 07 Subject Code:3172615 w.e.f