Planar-fingerprint transition in a thermoreversible liquid crystalline gel

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  De Lózar, Alberto ^a   Schöpf, Wolfgang ^a   Rehberg, Ingo ^a   Lafuente, Oscar ^a   Lattermann, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRAL ORGANOGELATOR; KOHLRAUSCH-WILLIAMS-WATTS LAW; PLANAR-FINGERPRINT TRANSITION; THERMOREVERSIBLE LIQUID CRYSTALLINE GEL;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; GELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 26944502653     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.051707     Document Type: Article

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