

1. ABOUT THE DATASET
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Title: Dataset for 'The Adhesion of Smectic Liquid Crystal Elastomers'

Creator(s): A. Street, S.R. Berrow, J. Mattsson, H.F. Gleeson

Organisation(s): University of Leeds

Rights-holder(s):Copyright 2025 University of Leeds

Publication Year: 2025

Description: [Abstract or brief description of the Dataset. Do not copy the abstract of an associated paper. The description should provide brief summary information about the content of the dataset, e.g.: a description of the data, how they were collected/generated, key characteristics, etc. sufficient to give someone landing on the metadata record a basic understanding of what the data are and their possible relevance or use.]

Cite as: A. Street, S.R. Berrow, J. Mattsson, H.F. Gleeson, 2025, Dataset for 'The Adhesion of Smectic Liquid Crystal Elastomers'. University of Leeds. https://doi.org/10.5518/1726.

Related publication: A. Street, S.R. Berrow, J. Mattsson, H.F. Gleeson 'The Adhesion of Smectic Liquid Crystal Elastomers', 2025, [JOURNAL], (accepted)

Contact: A. Street: py18ajs@leeds.ac.uk


2. TERMS OF USE
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Copyright 2025 University of Leeds. 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: Mechanical Properties of Auxetic Liquid Crystal Elastomers

Dates: 2022-2026

Funding organisation: University of Leeds, Pilkington Technology Limited



4. CONTENTS
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File listing

Where possible, files are presented as .csv or .txt to improve functionality on a wide array of machines

A8OCB denotes the main mesogenic unit of the LCE in question
Contained within the DMA files:
Angular frequency (2pi*oscillation frequency)
Step Time, Oscillation %, Oscillation Stress, Complex Viscosity (Not shown directly in the figures)
Temperature, Storage Modulus, Loss Modulus, Tan(delta) (All used heavily throughout the results)

5. METHODS
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DMA data were taken using Texas Instruments DMA 850 Dynamic Mechanical Analysis equipment
