Control of the orientation of thin open supported columnar liquid crystal films by the kinetics of growth

Europhysics Letters

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 712-718

  Grelet, Eric ^a   Bock, Harald ^a  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE PAUL PASCAL   (France)

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EID: 33644913395     PISSN: 02955075     EISSN: 12864854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1209/epl/i2005-10459-5     Document Type: Article

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