Smectic liquid crystals: Materials with one-dimensional, periodic order

Geometriae Dedicata

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 229-240

  Kamien, Randall D ^a   Santangelo, Christian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Foliations; Liquid crystals; Mean curvature flow

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747111825     PISSN: 00465755     EISSN: 15729168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10711-006-9075-y     Document Type: Article

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