Ordered patterns of liquid crystal toroidal defects by microchannel confinement

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 101, Issue 50, 2004, Pages 17340-17344

  Myung, Chul Choi ^a,b,c   Pfohl, Thomas ^a,b,d   Zhiyu, Wen ^e   Youli, Li ^a   Mahn, Won Kim ^a,c   Israelachvili, Jacob N ^a,b   Safinya, Cyrus R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^e CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4' OCTYL 4 CYANOBIPHENYL; BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; ION CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHANNEL GATING; COLLOID; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENCAPSULATION; FLOW KINETICS; LIQUID CRYSTAL; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIPHENYL COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; NITRILES;

EID: 10644263479     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0407925101     Document Type: Article

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