Dry-friction and critical state in lyotropic nematic liquid crystals in a magnetic field

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 222, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 113-118

  Andreoli De Oliveira, E ^a   Barbero, G ^b   Figueiredo Neto, A M ^a   Zvezdin, A K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); FRICTION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

CONTINUUM THEORY; CRITICAL FIELDS; CRITICAL STATE; DRY FRICTION; MODEL-BASED OPC; NEMATIC MOLECULES; OBLIQUE MAGNETIC FIELDS; SOLID SUBSTRATES;

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 0042595266     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0375-9601(96)00587-7     Document Type: Article

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