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Liquid crystals are fluids with a directionality defined. Polymers
are long molecules with a shape that can be changed. As a network,
polymers form rubber - a soft solid that is locally liquid-like and
capable of huge extension. Liquid crystal elastomers are a
combination of all these curious aspects, but with additional,
revolutionary new phenomena - for example, spontaneous shape
changes of several hundred percent induced by temperature change,
with equally large opto-mechanical responses, shape change without
energy cost ("soft elasticity"), colour change with strain, lasing
and photonics, sensitivity to molecular handedness and soft solid
ferroelectricity. This book is a primer for liquid crystals,
polymers, rubber, and elasticity. It then describes the theory and
experiment of these remarkable materials for the first time as a
monograph. Worked examples are solved so that the reader can become
proficient in the field himself. The book is directed at
physicists, chemists, material scientists, engineers and applied
mathematicians at the graduate student level and beyond
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