Surface triple points and multiple-layer transitions observed by tuning the surface field at smectic liquid-crystal-water interfaces

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Bahr, Ch ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); MULTILAYERS; NONIONIC SURFACTANTS; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; WATER;

LOWER SURFACTANT CONCENTRATIONS; SMECTIC LAYER NUMBERS; SMECTIC LAYERS; THEORETICAL MODELS;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

SURFACTANT; WATER;

CHEMISTRY; LIQUID CRYSTAL; PHASE TRANSITION; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

LIQUID CRYSTALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHASE TRANSITION; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 34547559831     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.057801     Document Type: Article

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