Enhanced elasticity and soft glassy rheology of a smectic in a random porous environment

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2005, Pages

  Bandyopadhyay, Ranjini ^a   Liang, Dennis ^a   Colby, Ralph H ^b   Harden, James L ^c   Leheny, Robert L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL GELS; ELASTIC RESPONSE; METASTABILITY; SMECTIC ORDERING;

AEROSOLS; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; GELS; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; POROUS MATERIALS; QUENCHING; RHEOLOGY; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 18044365020     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.107801     Document Type: Article

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