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Area of Science:

  • Materials Science
  • Soft Matter Physics
  • Polymer Science

Background:

  • Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are stimuli-responsive materials known for large, reversible contractions.
  • Their phase transitions are associated with soft modes and potential microstructural instabilities.
  • Understanding these instabilities is crucial for designing LCE-based actuators and devices.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the microstructural instabilities in a planar LCE slab under constrained cooling conditions.
  • To characterize the resulting surface topography and its relationship to material properties.
  • To elucidate the underlying mechanics of the observed instability.

Main Methods:

  • Experimentally heating a planar LCE to the isotropic phase, clamping one surface, and cooling back to the nematic phase.
  • Numerically computing the microstructural relaxation of a nonideal LCE energy functional.
  • Employing linear stability analysis to identify the nature of the instability.

Main Results:

  • Constrained cooling of LCEs leads to surface destabilization and the formation of topography.
  • The observed topography has an amplitude and wavelength comparable to the LCE slab thickness.
  • Linear stability analysis revealed a scale-free instability with an oblique wave vector.
  • Instability culminates in a cusp-free, hysteresis-free crosshatch pattern composed of low-stress soft modes.

Conclusions:

  • The study demonstrates a novel method for inducing microstructural patterns in LCEs through controlled cooling and clamping.
  • The resulting crosshatch pattern is a unique consequence of soft modes in constrained LCEs.
  • Findings provide insights into the mechanics of soft matter instabilities and LCE behavior.