Colloid–liquid-crystal composites: An unusual soft solid

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

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2000, Pages

  Meeker, S P ^a   Poon, W C K ^a   Crain, J ^a   Terentjev, E M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; BIREFRINGENCE; COLLOIDS; ELECTROOPTICAL MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; AGGREGATES; ELASTIC MODULI; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

BIREFRINGENT SOFT SOLID; COLLOID LIQUID CRYSTAL COMPOSITE; ISOTROPIC NEMATIC TRANSITION; PARTICLE AGGREGATE; STORAGE MODULUS; SWITCHABLE ELECTROOPTICAL MATERIAL;

MIXTURES; AGGLOMERATION;

COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; ISOTROPIC-NEMATIC TRANSITIONS; LIQUID-CRYSTAL COMPOSITES; MIXING MODELS; NEMATIC ORDER; PARTICLE AGGREGATES; SWITCHABLE; THERMOTROPIC NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0034206241     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.61.R6083     Document Type: Article

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