Director configurations of nematic liquid crystalline droplets and corresponding configuration transitions

Science in China, Series B: Chemistry

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 203-210

  Lu, Jianming ^b   Zhang, Hongdong ^b   Ding, Jiandong ^b   Yang, Yuliang ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Director configuration; Nematic droplet; PDLC material; Polymer dispersed liquid crystal

Indexed keywords

EID: 3342962435     PISSN: 10069291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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