Isotropic-nematic interface and wetting in suspensions of colloidal platelets

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Van Der Beek, D ^a,f   Reich, H ^b   Van Der Schoot, P ^c   Dijkstra, M ^a   Schilling, T ^d   Vink, R ^b   Schmidt, M ^b,e   Van Roij, R ^a   Lekkerkerker, H ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSIONS; GLASS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT POLARIZATION; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; SURFACE TENSION; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

FRANK ELASTICITY; ISOTROPIC NEMATIC INTERFACE; LIGHT MICROGRAPHS; MENISCUS;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 33747814855     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.087801     Document Type: Article

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