Viscosity of a liquid crystal near the nematic-smectic a phase transition

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 8, 2003, Pages

  Madsen, Anders ^a   Als Nielsen, Jens ^b   Grübel, Gerhard ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; GRAPH THEORY; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS; X RAY SCATTERING; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

NEMATIC-SMECTIC PHASE TRANSITION; X-RAY PHOTON CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0037471068     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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