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Aging and Metastability of Monoglycerides in Hydrophobic Solutions by Chen, C. H, Terentjev, E. M

“…Monoglyceride dispersed in oil acts as gel emulsifier to stabilize ordered lamellar structures; however, with time these phases age, leading to separation of…”
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Self-Assembled Shape-Memory Fibers of Triblock Liquid-Crystal Polymers by Ahir, S. V., Tajbakhsh, A. R., Terentjev, E. M.

“…New thermoplastic liquid‐crystalline elastomers have been synthesized using the telechelic principle of microphase separation in triblock copolymers. The large…”
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Micro-Raman spectroscopy of algae: Composition analysis and fluorescence background behavior by Huang, Y.Y, Beal, C.M, Cai, W.W, Ruoff, R.S, Terentjev, E.M

“…Preliminary feasibility studies were performed using Stokes Raman scattering for compositional analysis of algae. Two algal species, Chlorella sorokiniana…”
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F1 rotary motor of ATP synthase is driven by the torsionally-asymmetric drive shaft by Kulish, O., Wright, A. D., Terentjev, E. M.

“…F 1 F 0 ATP synthase (ATPase) either facilitates the synthesis of ATP in a process driven by the proton moving force (pmf), or uses the energy from ATP…”
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Nematic elastomers with aligned carbon nanotubes: New electromechanical actuators by Courty, S, Mine, J, Tajbakhsh, A. R, Terentjev, E. M

“…We demonstrate, for the first time, the large electromechanical response in nematic liquid-crystalline elastomers filled with a very low ($\sim 0.01\%$)…”
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Effects of Water on Aggregation and Stability of Monoglycerides in Hydrophobic Solutions by Chen, C. H, Terentjev, E. M

“…We apply a set of different techniques to analyze the physical properties and phase transitions of monoglyceride (MG)−oil−water ternary systems. The effect of…”
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Viscoelasticity of a protein monolayer from anisotropic surface pressure measurements by CICUTA, P, TERENTJEV, E. M

“…We present a method to completely characterize the viscoelasticity of Langmuir monolayers. In contrast to existing techniques, both the compression and shear…”
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Spontaneous Size Selection in Cholesteric and Nematic Emulsions by Tixier, T, Heppenstall-Butler, M, Terentjev, E. M

“…We study the spontaneous size selection in lyotropic cholesteric (W/O) and thermotropic nematic (O/W) liquid crystal emulsions. The droplet sizes have been…”
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Role of polarization and alignment in photoactuation of nematic elastomers by HARVEY, C. L. M, TERENTJEV, E. M

“…Changing the orientational order in liquid-crystal elastomers leads to internal stresses and changes of the sample shape. When this effect is induced by light,…”
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Infrared actuation in aligned polymer-nanotube composites by Ahir, S. V., Squires, A. M., Tajbakhsh, A. R., Terentjev, E. M.

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Thermal diffusion and bending kinetics in nematic elastomer cantilever by Hon, K. K., Corbett, D., Terentjev, E. M.

“… Vertically aligned monodomain nematic liquid-crystal elastomers contract when heated. If a temperature gradient is applied across the width of such a…”
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Microscopic origin of nonlinear nonaffine deformation in bulk metallic glasses by Zaccone, A., Schall, P., Terentjev, E. M.

“…The atomic theory of elasticity of amorphous solids, based on the nonaffine response formalism, is extended into the nonlinear stress-strain regime by coupling…”
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Fast relaxation of carbon nanotubes in polymer composite actuators by Ahir, S V, Terentjev, E M

“…Silicone elastomer composites containing multiwalled carbon nanotubes have been irradiated with near-infrared light to study their mechanical actuation…”
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Induced Helicity in Biopolymer Networks under Stress by Courty, S., Gornall, J. L., Terentjev, E. M., Edwards, Sam

“…By combining dynamic mechanical and optical measurements in probing the internal structure of a biopolymer network (gelatin gel), we studied the…”
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Stress Relaxation in Transient Networks of Symmetric Triblock Styrene−Isoprene−Styrene Copolymer by Hotta, A, Clarke, S. M, Terentjev, E. M

“…We study thermoplastic elastomers of triblock copolymers, of the form polystyrene−polyisoprene−polystyrene (SIS), where the microphase-separated PS blocks act…”
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UV isomerisation in nematic elastomers as a route to photo-mechanical transducer by Cviklinski, J, Tajbakhsh, A R, Terentjev, E M

“…The macroscopic shape of liquid-crystalline elastomers strongly depends on the order parameter of the mesogenic groups. This order can be manipulated if…”
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Colloidal interactions and transport in nematic liquid crystals by Tatarkova, S A, Burnham, D R, Kirby, A K, Love, G D, Terentjev, E M

“…We describe a new nematic liquid-crystal colloid system which is characterized by both charge stabilization of the particles and an interaction force. We…”
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Rheology at the Phase Transition Boundary:  2. Hexagonal Phase of Triton X100 Surfactant Solution by Ahir, S. V, Petrov, P. G, Terentjev, E. M

“…The phase behavior of the Triton X100/water binary mixture is investigated using rheological, optical, and X-ray synchrotron techniques. In particular, the…”
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Dynamic soft elasticity in monodomain nematic elastomers by HOTTA, A, TERENTJEV, E. M

“…We study the linear dynamic-mechanical response of monodomain nematic liquid crystalline elastomers under shear in the geometry that allows the director…”
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Stereo-selective swelling of imprinted cholesteric networks by Courty, S, Tajbakhsh, A R, Terentjev, E M

“…Molecular chirality, and the chiral symmetry breaking of resulting macroscopic phases, can be topologically imprinted and manipulated by cross-linking and…”
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