Small-angle x-ray scattering study of flow alignment of a thermotropic liquid crystal in the nematic and smectic phases

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

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Hamley, I W ^a   Castelletto, V ^a   Parras, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; SYNCHROTRONS; X RAY SCATTERING;

4-N-OCTYL- 4′ -CYANOBIPHENYL; CIRCULAR CAPILLARY; LESLIE VISCOSITY; POISEUILLE FLOW;

THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33746849734     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.020701     Document Type: Article

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