Density functional theory of liquid crystals and surface anchoring

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

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  Moradi, M ^a,b,c   Wheatley, Richard J ^b,c   Avazpour, A ^c  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c YASOUJ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFINED FLOW; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SURFACE TREATMENT;

HOMOGENEOUS FLUIDS; ORIENTATION MODEL; SURFACE ANCHORING;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33244474390     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.061706     Document Type: Article

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