Investigation of uniaxial and biaxial lyotropic nematic phase transitions by means of digital image processing

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Volumn 408, Issue , 2004, Pages 45-51

  Sampaio, A R ^a   Palangana, A J ^a   Viscovini, R C ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biaxial nematic phase; Digital image processing; Lyotropic nematic textures

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; BIREFRINGENCE; CHEMICAL BONDS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SEPARATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEXTURES;

BIAXIAL NEMATIC PHASE; DECANOL; LYOTROPIC NEMATIC TEXTURES; STRUCTURAL CHANGES;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 3142573491     PISSN: 15421406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15421400490425838     Document Type: Article

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