ABSTRACT
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .559 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .559
While liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) combining the properties of liquid crystals and of elastomers, had been synthesized first by Finkelmann’s group over 25 years ago [1] (cf. Ref. [2] for a recent review of some macroscopic properties), the field of magnetic gels is much more recent. In the late 90’s, Zrinyi’s group reported the preparation of isotropic magnetic gels combining the properties of a gel with those of a magnetic liquid [3,4].
