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Seshadri, Bharath (author), Hischier, Illias (author), Masania, K. (author), Schlueter, Arno (author)A novel approach is presented to 3D print vacuum–tight polymer components using liquid crystal polymers (LCPs). Vacuum–tight components are essential for gas storage and passive heat transfer, but traditional polymer 3D printing methods often suffer from poor interfaces between layers and high free volume, compromising vacuum integrity. By...journal article 2023
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Houriet, C.C.M.C.A.G. (author), Damodaran, V. (author), Mascolo, Chiara (author), Gantenbein, Silvan (author), Peeters, D.M.J. (author), Masania, K. (author)Anisotropic materials formed by living organisms possess remarkable mechanical properties due to their intricate microstructure and directional freedom. In contrast, human-made materials face challenges in achieving similar levels of directionality due to material and manufacturability constraints. To overcome these limitations, an approach...journal article 2023
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Pak, A. (author), Nanbakhsh, K. (author), Hölck, Ole (author), Ritasalo, Riina (author), Sousa, Maria (author), Van Gompel, Matthias (author), Pahl, Barbara (author), Wilson, J.M. (author), Kallmayer, Christine (author), Giagka, Vasiliki (author)Liquid crystal polymer (LCP) has gained wide interest in the electronics industry largely due to its flexibility, stable insulation and dielectric properties and chip integration capabilities. Recently, LCP has also been investigated as a biocompatible substrate for the fabrication of multielectrode arrays. Realizing a fully implantable LCP...journal article 2022
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Wang, Jue (author), Yuan, Weiyi (author), Li, Z. (author), Zhu, Yingcan (author), Santos, Thebano (author), Fan, J. (author)This paper presents a convenient and efficient method to predict the mechanical solutions of a laminated Liquid Crystal Elastomers (LCEs) system subjected to combined thermo-mechanical load, based on a back propagation (BP) neural network which is trained by machine learning from a database established by analytical solutions. Firstly, the...journal article 2022
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Wang, Jue (author), Yuan, Weiyi (author), Li, Z. (author), Trofimov, Yuri (author), Lishik, Sergey (author), Fan, J. (author)Some atrial contractile assist devices applied on the heart surface can be regarded as a laminated Liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) plate under steady temperature loads and a contact mechanical force. An exact solution for the deformation of the laminated LCE plate under combined thermal and mechanical loads is derived by solving the three...journal article 2022
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Chavez Tapia, M.A. (author), Xu, M. (author), Wu, Zehang (author), Zuniga, Marco (author)A recent development in wireless communication is the use of optical shutters and smartphone cameras to create optical links solely from ambient light. At the transmitter, a liquid crystal display (LCD) modulates ambient light by changing its level of transparency. At the receiver, a smartphone camera decodes the optical pattern. This LCD-To...journal article 2022
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Fox, Ryan J. (author), Hegde, Maruti (author), Cole, Daniel P. (author), Moore, Robert B. (author), Picken, S.J. (author), Dingemans, T.J. (author)We report on the morphology and mechanical properties of nanocomposite films derived from aqueous, hybrid liquid crystalline mixtures of rodlike aggregates of a sulfonated, all-aromatic polyamide, poly(2,2′-disulfonyl-4,4′-benzidine terephthalamide) (PBDT), and graphene oxide (GO) platelets. An isothermal step at 200 °C facilitates in situ...journal article 2022
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Ataei Dadavi, I. (author), Chakkingal, M. (author), Kenjeres, S. (author), Kleijn, C.R. (author), Tummers, M.J. (author)This paper reports on an experimental study of natural convection in an enclosure that is heated at the bottom and cooled at the top, filled with a packed bed of relatively large solid spheres. Nusselt numbers were measured for various sphere conductivities, spheres sizes and sphere packings for Rayleigh numbers varying between 10<sup>7</sup>...journal article 2019
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Tummers, M.J. (author), Steunebrink, M. (author)This paper reports on an experimental study of the effects of surface roughness on the flow and heat transfer in cubical Rayleigh-Bénard convection cells for Rayleigh numbers between 10<sup>7</sup> and 10<sup>10</sup>. In the rough cells the top and bottom surfaces are equipped with square arrays of copper cubes. In line with other studies,...journal article 2019
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Kragt, Augustinus J.J. (author), Hoekstra, Davey C. (author), Stallinga, S. (author), Broer, Dirk J. (author), Schenning, Albertus P.H.J. (author)Engineering the helical structure of chiral photonic materials in three dimensions remains a challenge. 3D helix engineered photonic materials are fabricated by local stratification in a photopolymerizable chiral nematic liquid crystal. The obtained chiral photonic materials reflect both handedness of circular polarized light and show super...journal article 2019
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Oyarzun, B. (author), Van Westen, T. (author), Vlugt, T.J.H. (author)The isotropic-nematic phase equilibria of linear hard-sphere chains and binary mixtures of them are obtained from Monte Carlo simulations. In addition, the infinite dilution solubility of hard spheres in the coexisting isotropic and nematic phases is determined. Phase equilibria calculations are performed in an expanded formulation of the Gibbs...journal article 2015
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Van Westen, T. (author), Oyarzun, B. (author), Vlugt, T.J.H. (author), Gross, J. (author)An extension of Onsager's second virial theory is developed to describe the isotropic-nematic phase transition of tangent hard-sphere chain fluids. Flexibility is introduced by the rod-coil model. The effect of chain-flexibility on the second virial coefficient is described using an accurate, analytical approximation for the orientation...journal article 2013
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Oyarzun, B.A. (author), Van Westen, T. (author), Vlugt, T.J.H. (author)he liquid crystal phase behavior of linear and partially flexible hard-sphere chain fluids and the solubility of hard spheres in hard-sphere chain fluids are studied by constant pressure Monte Carlo simulations. An extensive study on the phase behavior of linear fluids with a length of 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 20 beads is carried out...journal article 2013
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Van Westen, T. (author), Vlugt, T.J.H. (author), Gross, J. (author)Onsager-like theories are commonly used to describe the phase behavior of nematic (only orientationally ordered) liquid crystals. A key ingredient in such theories is the orientation-dependent excluded volume of two molecules. Although for hard convex molecular models this is generally known in analytical form, for more realistic molecular...journal article 2012
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Dündar, M.A. (author), Kicken, H.H.J.E. (author), Silov, A.Y. (author), Nötzel, R. (author), Karouta, F. (author), Salemink, H.W.M. (author), Van der Heijden, R.W. (author)Mode-dependent shifts of resonant frequencies of cavities in liquid crystal (LC) infiltrated planar photonic crystals (PhC) are experimentally observed when the temperature is varied across the LC ordering transition. The shifts can be in opposite directions, even for two very similar nearly degenerate modes. The behavior is attributed to the...journal article 2009
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Sluijter, M. (author), De Boer, D.K.G. (author), Urbach, H.P. (author)Firm evidence of the biaxial nematic phase in liquid crystals, not induced by a magnetic or electric field, has been established only recently. The discovery of these biaxially anisotropic liquid crystals has opened up new areas of both fundamental and applied research. The advances in biaxial liquid crystal-related topics call for a good...journal article 2009
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Sluijter, M. (author), De Boer, D.K.G. (author), Urbach, H.P. (author)We present simulations of a novel liquid-crystal-based electro-optical device that enables a switching effect owing to a backreflection phenomenon. In the simulations, we exploit the optical properties of a liquid-crystal layer with a Freédericksz alignment in an unconventional way. The resulting switching effect of the proposed optical design...journal article 2008
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Xu, M. (author), De Sio, L. (author), Caputo, R. (author), Umeton, C.P. (author), Wachters, A.J.H. (author), De Boer, D.K.G. (author), Urbach, H.P. (author)Recently, a novel holographic diffraction grating made of polymer slices alternated to homogeneous films of nematic liquid crystal (POLICRYPS) was realized. We study the optical performance of the POLICRYPS gratings by both numerical simulations and experiments. Characterization of the grating at normal and conical reading mount are performed....journal article 2008
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Sluijter, M. (author), De Boer, D.K.G. (author), Braat, J.J.M. (author)Uniaxial optical anisotropy in the geometrical-optics approach is a classical problem, and most of the theory has been known for at least fifty years. Although the subject appears frequently in the literature, wave propagation through inhomogeneous anisotropic media is rarely addressed. The rapid advances in liquid-crystal lenses call for a good...journal article 2008
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Simonov, A.N. (author), Vdovine, G.V. (author), Loktev, M. (author)We present a prototype of an adaptive intraocular lens based on a modal liquid-crystal spatial phase modulator with wireless control. The modal corrector consists of a nematic liquid-crystal layer sandwiched between two glass substrates with transparent low- and high-ohmic electrodes, respectively. Adaptive correction of ocular aberrations is...journal article 2007
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