Naturally occurring reverse tilt domains in a high-pretilt alignment nematic liquid crystal

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

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Wang, Ruiting ^a   Atherton, Timothy J ^a   Zhu, Minhua ^a   Petschek, Rolfe G ^a   Rosenblatt, Charles ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; ORGANIC ACIDS;

FILAMENT LIKE WALLS; ISOTROPIC PHASE; POLYAMIC ACIDS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 34547861235     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.021702     Document Type: Article

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