When liquid crystalline cellulose flows and relaxes

Cellulose-based liquid crystalline materials can generate stimuli-responsive fibbers and films [1,2]. Changes in orientational order, which can be affected by variation of temperature and UV irradiation as well as by the presence of solvent vapours, give rise to stresses, which result in strains and...

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Main Author: Teixeira, P. F. (author)
Other Authors: Fernandes, Susete N. (author), Canejo, João (author), Godinho, Maria Helena (author), Leal, Catarina Rosa (author), Hilliou, L. (author)
Format: conferenceObject
Language:eng
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/25479
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/25479