Role of surface anchoring and geometric confinement on focal conic textures in smectic-a liquid crystals

Langmuir

Volumn 22, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 9986-9993

  Shojaei Zadeh, Shahab ^a   Anna, Shelley L ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRIC CONFINEMENT; HOMEOTROPIC ANCHORING; MICROSCALE PARALLEL CRACKS; PACKING STRUCTURES;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HYDROPHILICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROCRACKS; SURFACE TREATMENT; THERMOANALYSIS;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33846142173     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la061703i     Document Type: Article

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