Aerosil dispersed in a liquid crystal: Magnetic order and random silica disorder

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 818-821

  Jin, Tao ^a   Finotello, Daniele ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MAGNETIZATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

AEROSILS;

SILICA;

EID: 0035137791     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.818     Document Type: Article

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