On the relative magnitudes of viscous, elastic and texture stresses in liquid crystalline PBG solutions

Rheologica Acta

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 150-159

  Larson, Ronald G ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Defects; Liquid crystalline; Molecular theory; Polymers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001565538     PISSN: 00354511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00396042     Document Type: Article

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