Escape configuration lattice near the nematic-isotropic transition: Tilt analogue of blue phases

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 15, 2006, Pages

  Chakrabarti, Buddhapriya ^a   Hatwalne, Yashodhan ^b   Madhusudana, N V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b RAMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUE PHASE; NEMATIC-ISOTROPIC TRANSITION;

CRYSTAL LATTICES; LATTICE CONSTANTS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STABILITY;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

ANISOTROPY; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL; PHASE TRANSITION;

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PHASE TRANSITION;

EID: 33645815504     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.157801     Document Type: Article

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