Laser manipulation in liquid crystals: An approach to microfluidics and micromachines

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1847, 2006, Pages 2789-2805

  Gleeson, Helen F ^a   Wood, Tiffany A ^a   Dickinson, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Liquid crystals; Microrheology; Optical trapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750504644     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1855     Document Type: Article

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