Smectic ordering in liquid-crystal-aerosil dispersions. II. Scaling analysis

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 1 1, 2003, Pages 117091-1170913

  Iannacchione, Germane S ^a   Park, Sungil ^b,e   Garland, Carl W ^b   Birgeneau, Robert J ^c   Leheny, Robert L ^d  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHASE SEPARATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SILICA; VOLUME FRACTION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

QUENCHED RANDOM DISORDER (QRD);

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0038029924     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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