Tiling the plane with noncongruent toric focal conic domains

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

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 6739-6748

  Blanc, Christophe ^a   Kleman, Maurice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; GLASS; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; SUBSTRATES; TEXTURES;

FOCAL CONIC DOMAINS; LAMELLAR LIQUID CRYSTAL PHASES;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0034318331     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.62.6739     Document Type: Article

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