Dendrimeric liquid crystals: Isotropic-nematic pretransitional behavior

Macromolecules

Volumn 29, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 7813-7819

  Li, Jian Feng ^a   Crandall, Karl A ^a   Chu, Peihwei ^a   Percec, Virgil ^a   Petschek, Rolfe G ^a   Rosenblatt, Charles ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELLIPSOMETRY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEUTRON SCATTERING; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SUBSTRATES; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

DENDRIMERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; LANDAU DIVERGENCE;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0030285720     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma961116b     Document Type: Article

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