Isotropic-to-nematic transition in liquid-crystalline heteropolymers: I. Formalism and main-chain liquid-crystalline polymers

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 18, Issue 41, 2006, Pages 9335-9357

  Wessels, Paul P F ^a,b   Mulder, Bela M ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b ABN AMRO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ELASTICITY; ELECTRIC LINES; ENTROPY; FUNCTIONS; POLYMERS;

FLEXIBLE SPACERS; HETEROPOLYMERS; MESOGENS; ONSAGER APPROXIMATION;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33749432727     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/18/41/003     Document Type: Article

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