MUMBAI, India, Oct. 11 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517092537 A) filed by University Of Leeds, Leeds, U.K., on Sept. 26, for 'method of preparing an aligned liquid crystal elastomer.'
Inventor(s) include Gleeson, Helen, Frances; Hine, Peter John; Hussain, Mariam; Mandle, Richard; Raistrick, Thomas; Zhang, Zhaopeng; Mistry, Devesh, Arvind; Jull, Ethan, Isaak Luke; and Reynolds, Matthew.
The application for the patent was published on Oct. 10, under issue no. 41/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A method of preparing method of preparing an aligned nematic liquid crystal elastomer with a reduced auxetic response threshold comprising applying a pre-strain condition to a liquid crystal elastomer."
The patent application was internationally filed on Mar. 20, 2024, under International application No.PCT/GB2024/050754.
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