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Proposal of mechanics of liquid crystals and development of liquid crystalline microactuators Chono, Shigeomi Tsuji, Tomohiro electric fields liquid crystals microactuators We propose a research field “mechanics of liquid crystals,” in which liquid crystals are studied from a mechanical viewpoint. The unsteady behaviors of a liquid crystal between parallel plates under an electric field are investigated. The imposition of the electric field on the liquid crystal induces flows, whose profile and magnitude strongly depend on the twist angle of the director at the plates. A visualization experiment confirms the generation of flows. The mechanism of such generation can be explained by considering that the rotation of molecules generated by the imposition of the electric field induces a local velocity gradient. journal article American Institute of Physics 2008-02 VoR application/pdf Applied Physics Letters 5 92 051905-1 051905-3 AA00543431 0003-6951 https://kutarr.kochi-tech.ac.jp/record/68/files/APL_92_5_051905.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10173/586 https://kutarr.kochi-tech.ac.jp/records/68 eng 10.1063/1.2840673 http://link.aip.org/link/?apl/92/051905 http://link.aip.org/link/?apl/92/051905 Copyright 2008 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 051905 (2008) and may be found at http://link.aip.org/link/?apl/92/051905