Defect structure around two colloids in a liquid crystal

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 23, 2003, Pages

  Guzman O ^a   Kim, E B ^a   Grollau, S ^a   Abbott, N L ^a   de Pablo, J J ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIOSENSORS; COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; FREE ENERGY; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TOPOLOGY;

DEFECT STRUCTURES; DYNAMIC FIELD THEORY;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0346686254     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.235507     Document Type: Article

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