Two-stage surface freezing of a single top layer in a smectic-A membrane

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

Volumn 67, Issue 2 1, 2003, Pages 207011-207014

  De Jeu, Wim H ^a   Fera, Andrea ^a,d   Konovalov, Oleg ^b   Ostrovskii, Boris I ^a,c  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^c SHUBNIKOV INSTITUTE OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^d INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; CRYSTALLIZATION; FREEZING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; MEMBRANES; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

SMECTIC MEMBRANES;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0038733899     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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