Ordering transition and demixing of a binary mixture of thick and thin rodlike molecules in the presence of an external field

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 125, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Dobra, Szabolcs ^a   Szalai, István ^a   Varga, Szabolcs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; BIREFRINGENCE; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; ORDER DISORDER TRANSITIONS; THICK FILMS;

COUPLING PARAMETERS; NEMATIC PHASES; PARANEMATIC-NEMATIC TRANSITIONS; RODLIKE PARTICLES;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES;

EID: 33747593848     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2244554     Document Type: Article

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