Growth and structure of nematic spherulites under shallow thermal quenches

Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics

Volumn 19, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 37-58

  Wincure, Benjamin ^a   Rey, Alejandro D ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Defects; Liquid Crystal phase transformations; Nematic liquid crystals; Nucleation; Quenching (thermal); Texture

Indexed keywords

INTERFACIAL DEFECT SHEDDING MECHANISMS; NEMATIC SPHERULITE; THERMAL QUENCHES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; NUCLEATION; QUENCHING;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 34250376149     PISSN: 09351175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00161-007-0043-z     Document Type: Article

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