Orientational order and dynamics of the dendritic liquid crystal organo-siloxane tetrapodes determined using dielectric spectroscopy

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

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Merkel, K ^a,b   Kocot, A ^a,b   Vij, J K ^a,c   Mehl, G H ^c   Meyer, T ^c  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DENDRIMERS; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DIELECTRIC RELAXATION; SILANES; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

MOLECULAR SEGMENTS; NEMATIC PHASE; ORIENTATIONAL ORDER PARAMETER; ROTATIONAL DIFFUSION;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33646380069     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.051702     Document Type: Article

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