The liquid crystalline phase behavior of dimerizing hard spherocylinders

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 106, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 7315-7330

  McGrother, Simon C ^a   Sear, Richard P ^a,b   Jackson, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0000962943     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.473693     Document Type: Article

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