Papers

1. Semisoft elastic response of nematic elastomers to complex deformations, Biggins Terentjev and Warner, Phys. Rev. E 78, 041704, (2008), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.041704
2. Strain-induced polarization in non-ideal chiral nematic elastomers, Biggins, Proc. R. Soc. A 465:1361-1376, 2009 DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2008.045
3. Characterization of soft stripe-domain deformations in Sm-C and Sm-C* liquid crystal elastomers, Biggins and Bhattacharya, Phys. Rev. E 79, 061705 (2009), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.061705.
4. Textured deformations in liquid crystal elastomers, Biggins, Liquid Crystals, 2009, 0267-8292, DOI: 10.1080/02678290902879224 (invited review article for the de Gennes memorial edition)
5. Supersoft Elasticity in Polydomain Nematic Elastomers, Biggins, Bhattacharya and Warner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 037802 (2009), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.037802
6. Mechanical bistability in liquid crystal elastomer-wire composite actuators, Huang, Biggins and Terentjev, J. of Appl. Phys. 107, 3515, 2010
7. Elasticity of Polydomain Liquid Crystal Elastomers, Biggins, Bhattacharya and Warner (in preparation, arXiv:0911.3513v1)

PhD Thesis