Shear of molecularly confined liquid crystals. 1. Orientation and transitions under confinement

Langmuir

Volumn 13, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 4466-4473

  Janik, Joanna ^a,b   Tadmor, Rafael ^a   Klein, Jacob ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; AIR; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; MICA; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

SURFACE FORCE BALANCE;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0031556168     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la960452i     Document Type: Article

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