Early stages of spinodal decomposition in binary liquid crystal mixtures

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 113, Issue 20, 2000, Pages 9300-9309

  Matsuyama, Akihiko ^a   Kato, Tadaya ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; DECOMPOSITION; LINEAR EQUATIONS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE SEPARATION; QUENCHING;

LANDAU-GINZBURG EQUATION; SPINODAL DECOMPOSITION;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0034315458     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1319656     Document Type: Article

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