Glassy orientational dynamics of rodlike molecules near the isotropic-nematic transition

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

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Jana, Biman ^a   Chakrabarti, Dwaipayan ^a   Bagchi, Biman ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIQUIDS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SUPERCOOLING;

ORIENTATIONAL RELAXATION; SUPERCOOLED LIQUIDS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 34547398382     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.011712     Document Type: Article

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