Thermotropic biaxial nematic liquid crystals

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 14, 2004, Pages

  Madsen, L A ^a   Dingemans, T J ^a,b   Nakata, M ^a,c   Samulski, E T ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PERMITTIVITY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SURFACE TREATMENT; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

BIAXIALITY; POLARIZED MICROSCOPY; THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALS (LC);

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 2542422261     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.145505     Document Type: Article

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