Orientational multiplicity and transitions in liquid crystalline droplets

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

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Goyal, Rajesh K ^a   Denn, Morton M ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELONGATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

DIMENSIONLESS RATIO; ELASTIC FORCES; LIQUID CRYSTALLINE DROPLETS; ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTIONS; OSEEN-FRANK CONTINUUM THEORY;

DROPS;

EID: 33847671496     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.021704     Document Type: Article

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