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The influence of external mechanical stress on the nematic‐isotropic phase transformation of nematic elastomers was investigated. The experimental results of IR‐dichroism measurements in the nematic phase and stress‐optical measurements in the isotropic phase are in good agreement with the theoretical predicitions of the phenomenological Landau‐de Gennes theory. This is for the first time that a significant influence of an external field on the nematic‐isotropic phase transformation temperature and on the nematic order parameter S has been proved.
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Schätzle et al. (1989) studied this question.
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