Methods for the exact construction of mesoscale spatial structures in liquid crystal polymers

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 152-153, Issue , 2001, Pages 288-309

  Forest, M Gregory ^a   Wang, Qi ^b   Zhou, Hong ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Liquid crystalline polymers; Mesoscale Doi tensor theory; Spatial structures

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035873111     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(01)00175-0     Document Type: Article

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