Biaxial disclinated states in nematic elastomers

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 119, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 13170-13179

  Fried, Eliot ^a,b   Korchagin, Vladimir ^b   Todres, Russell E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CONFORMATIONS; CROSSLINKING; FREE ENERGY; NUMERICAL METHODS;

CONTINUUM MODEL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NEMATIC ELASTOMERS;

ELASTOMERS;

EID: 0942300878     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1622374     Document Type: Article

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