Nematohydrodynamic effects on the phase separation of a symmetric mixture of an isotropic liquid and a liquid crystal

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Araki, Takeaki ^a   Tanaka, Hajime ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; FREE ENERGY; HYDRODYNAMICS; KINETIC THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXTURES; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE SEPARATION; VISCOELASTICITY;

ELASTIC ASYMMETRY; ISOTROPIC LIQUIDS; NEMATOHYDRODYNAMICS; PHASE-SEPARATION DYNAMICS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 3442896192     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.015702     Document Type: Article

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