1. ABOUT THE DATASET
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Title:	Dataset for "Controlling the Optical Properties of Transparent Auxetic Liquid Crystal Elastomers"

Creator(s): [Emily J. Cooper [1], Matthew Reynolds [1], Thomas Raistrick [1], Stuart R. Berrow [1], Ethan I.L. Jull [1,†], Victor Reshetnyak [1,2], Devesh Mistry [1], Helen F. Gleeson [1]]

Organisation(s): [1. University of Leeds, 2. Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, † Current address: Utrecht University]

Rights-holder(s):Unless otherwise stated, Copyright 2023 University of Leeds

Publication Year: 2024

Description: [Dataset for "Controlling the Optical Properties of Transparent Auxetic Liquid Crystal Elastomers". Data includes transition temperatures of polymerized liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) and precursor LCE mixtures, refractive indices of nematic and isotropic LCEs, and order parameters of nematic LCEs.]

Cite as: E.J. Cooper, M. Reynolds, T. Raistrick, S.R. Berrow, E.I.L. Jull, V. Reshetnyak, D. Mistry, H.F. Gleeson] (2024): [Dataset for "Controlling the Optical Properties of Transparent Auxetic Liquid Crystal Elastomers"]. University of Leeds. [Dataset] https://doi.org/10.5518/1399. 

Related publication: [Authors: E.J. Cooper, M. Reynolds, T. Raistrick, S.R. Berrow, E.I.L. Jull, V. Reshetnyak, D. Mistry, H.F. Gleeson], [Title: Controlling the Optical Properties of Transparent Auxetic Liquid Crystal Elastomers], [Journal: Macromolecules], [2024]. DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.3c02226.

Contact: [py17ejc@leeds.ac.uk]


2. TERMS OF USE
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[A standard copyright notice and licence statement with URL can be used, e.g. Copyright [publication year] [University of Leeds, name of other rights-holder(s)]. Unless otherwise stated, this dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.]


3. PROJECT AND FUNDING INFORMATION
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Title: [ DTP 2020-2021 University of Leeds ]

Dates: [Oct 2021 - Sept 2025]

Funding organisation: EPSRC

Grant no.: EP/T517860/1

Additional grants to acknowledge: EP/V054724/1.



4. CONTENTS
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Figure 2.zip : Isotropic to nematic transition temperatures of precursor liquid crystal elastomer mixtures of different mesogenic content

Figure 3.zip : Glass transition temperatures of polymerized nematic liquid crystal elastomers

Figure 4.zip : Temperature dependent refractive index data of nematic liquid crystal elastomers 

Figure 5.zip : Temperature dependent average refractive index of a nematic liquid crystal elastomer compared to an isotropic liquid crystal elastomer with the same mesogenic content

Figure 6.zip : Average refractive index of nematic liquid crystal elastomers

Figure 7.zip : Order parameters of nematic liquid crystal elastomers of different mesogenic contents

Figure 8.zip : Refractive index anisotropy and order parameter of nematic liquid crystal elastomers

Figure S1.zip : The depolarization ratio of a nematic liquid crystal elastomer

Figure S2.zip : Transmission spectra of a nematic liquid crystal elastomer

Figure S3.zip : Temperature dependent birefringence of nematic liquid crystal elastomers

Figure S4.zip : Order parameter data of nematic liquid crystal elastomers compared to Maier-Saupe theory


5. METHODS
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For detailed experimental methods, please refer to the related publication: [Authors: E.J. Cooper, M. Reynolds, T. Raistrick, S.R. Berrow, E.I.L. Jull, V. Reshetnyak, D. Mistry, H.F. Gleeson], [Title: Controlling the Optical Properties of Transparent Auxetic Liquid Crystal Elastomers], [Journal: Macromolecules], [2024]. DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.3c02226.