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Liquid crystal elastomers have been synthesised in which up to 10 mol% of cross-link units may be introduced without completely disrupting the nematic liquid crystal phase, although the introduction of cross-linking has a marked effect upon the temperatures of the phase transitions.
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Davis et al. (1986) studied this question.
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