Forces between elongated particles in a nematic colloid

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

Volumn 68, Issue 5 1, 2003, Pages 517021-517025

  Andrienko, D ^a   Tasinkevych, M ^b   Patricio P ^b,c   Allen, M P ^d   Telo da Gama, M M ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FREE ENERGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; TENSORS;

ELONGATED COLLOIDAL PARTICLES; HOMEOTROPIC ORIENTATION;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 0942289302     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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