Self-supporting liquid crystal composite

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Volumn 409, Issue , 2004, Pages 59-68

  Cleaver, Julie ^a   Vollmer, Doris ^a   Crain, Jason ^a   Poon, Wilson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fluorescence microscopy; Liquid crystal composites; Mechanical properties; Microstructure; Network formation

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LASER SCANNING CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY (LSCM); LIQUID CRYSTAL COMPOSITES; NETWORK FORMATION;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COLLOIDS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; CONDENSATION; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DISPERSIONS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MIXTURES; REACTION KINETICS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 12844272217     PISSN: 15421406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15421400490435666     Document Type: Conference Paper

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