Fractal growth of a conventional calamitic liquid crystal

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

Volumn 70, Issue 5 1, 2004, Pages

  Dierking, I ^a   Chan, H K ^a   Culfaz, F ^a   McQuire, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFUSION; ELECTRODEPOSITION; FRACTALS; HYDROGEN BONDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); SINGLE CRYSTALS;

CONVENTIONAL CALAMITIC MESOGEN; FRACTAL GROWTH; ISOTHERMAL GROWTH; MESOGENS;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 37649030388     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.051701     Document Type: Article

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