Soft-stiff regime crossover for an aerosil network dispersed in liquid crystals

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

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Cordoyiannis, George ^a   Kralj, Samo ^b,c   Nounesis, George ^a   Źumer, Slobodan ^c,d   Kutnjak, Zdravko ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSIL CONCENTRATION; AEROSIL NETWORK; MOLECULAR TILT;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 33645509957     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.031707     Document Type: Article

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