Orientational ordering of solutes in confined nematic solvents: A possible way to probe director distributions

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

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Celebre, Giorgio ^a,b   Cinacchi, Giorgio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

FITTING FUNCTION; SAUPE ORDERING MATRICES; SLAB GEOMETRY; SURFACE ANCHORING;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33344471154     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.020702     Document Type: Article

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