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Is there only one equilibrium configuration for spontaneous bending of liquid crystal elastomer circular plates with

K F Wang1, B L Wang2

  • 1School of Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China. wangkf@hit.edu.cn.

The European Physical Journal. E, Soft Matter
|October 7, 2021
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