Splay-bend surface elastic constant of nematic liquid crystals: A solution of the Somoza-Tarazona paradox

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 6741-6756

  Faetti, Massimo ^a   Faetti, Sandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

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EID: 0000195856     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.57.6741     Document Type: Article

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