Nematic-isotropic transition with quenched disorder

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Petridis, L ^a   Terentjev, E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CROSSLINKING; PHASE TRANSITIONS; QUENCHING;

INVERSE QUARTIC POWER; ORIENTATIONAL DISORDER; SUPERCRITICAL TRANSITIONS;

ELASTOMERS;

EID: 33751200362     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.051707     Document Type: Article

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