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Stimuli-responsive liquid crystal elastomer microparticles

Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis

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Stimuli-responsive liquid crystal elastomer microparticles. / Taylor, James.
Lancaster University, 2019. 273 p.

Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis

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Taylor, J 2019, 'Stimuli-responsive liquid crystal elastomer microparticles', PhD, Lancaster University. https://doi.org/10.17635/lancaster/thesis/764

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Taylor, J. (2019). Stimuli-responsive liquid crystal elastomer microparticles. [Doctoral Thesis, Lancaster University]. Lancaster University. https://doi.org/10.17635/lancaster/thesis/764

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Taylor J. Stimuli-responsive liquid crystal elastomer microparticles. Lancaster University, 2019. 273 p. doi: 10.17635/lancaster/thesis/764

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Taylor, James. / Stimuli-responsive liquid crystal elastomer microparticles. Lancaster University, 2019. 273 p.

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KW - Liquid crystals

KW - Liquid crystal elastomers

KW - Liquid crystal polymers

KW - Microparticles

KW - Microfluidics

KW - Stimuli-Responsive Materials

KW - Chirality

KW - Materials Chemistry

KW - Shape memory polymers

KW - Shape changing

KW - Colour changing

KW - Droplets

KW - Particles

KW - Nematic liquid crystals

KW - Nematic phase

KW - Selective reflection

KW - Materials characterisation

KW - Chiral nematic phase

KW - Crosslinking

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