Stabilizing the blue phases

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

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Alexander, G P ^a   Yeomans, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; FREE ENERGY; PHASE DIAGRAMS;

CHOLESTERIC PHASES; ELASTIC CONSTANTS; HELIX INVERSION;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33846352509     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.061706     Document Type: Article

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