Hi,
Kindly refer the following link:
http://ac.els-cdn.com/S1567173912001113/1-s2.0-S1567173912001113-main.pdf?_tid=95fa67e0-db6f-11e4-b422-00000aacb362&acdnat=1428223483_a7ca2464831421d35c1c8eaeffb0419d
Polymers molecules, because of their macroscopic length in one dimension and nano-scales in the other two, are called "entropic springs" because of the significant role entropy plays. The most useful subclass of liquid crystalline polymers is the one that called liquid crystalline elastomers, meaninng that visco-elastic properties of these materials are coupled with a lot of things you can play in the liquid crystalline state: temperature, electric/magnetic fields, shearing, macroscopic electric polarization, chirality, ..., and even light! As a starting point, recommend Prof. Pullfy-Monharay's "fast liquid crystal elastomers swim into the dark".
Therefore, I can imagine materials doped with liquid crystalline polymer particles have lot of their properties tailored in a controlled way.
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