Discotic disguised as smectic: a hybrid columnar Bragg glass

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 20, 2000, Pages 4309-4312

  Saunders, Karl ^a   Radzihovsky, Leo ^b   Toner, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROGELS; ANISOTROPY; ELASTICITY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STRETCHING; TEMPERATURE; X RAY SCATTERING;

COLUMNAR BRAGG GLASS; DISCOTICS; STRAINED AEROGEL;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0034316371     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.4309     Document Type: Article

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