Phase diagrams and interfacial properties of nematic liquid crystals

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 244, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 389-401

  Telo Da Gama, M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PHASE DIAGRAMS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ORIENTATIONAL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0039974544     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(97)00223-9     Document Type: Article

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