Uniaxial and biaxial nematic liquid crystals

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

Volumn 364, Issue 1847, 2006, Pages 2681-2696

  Dingemans, T J ^a,b   Madsen, L A ^a   Zafiropoulos, N A ^a   Lin, Wenbin ^a   Samulski, E T ^a   Lagerwall, S T ^c   Picken, S J ^d   Kornyshev, A ^e   Safinya, C R ^f   Percec, V ^g   Bates, M A ^h  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f University of California   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Liquid crystal; Nematic; NMR; Nonlinear mesogen

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750507907     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1846     Document Type: Article

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