Probing elastic anisotropy from defect dynamics in langmuir monolayers

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Brugués, Jan ^a,b   Ignés Mullol, Jordi ^a,b   Casademunt, Jaume ^a,b   Sagués, Francesc ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ELASTIC CONSTANTS; LANGMUIR BLODGETT FILMS; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

ANNIHILATION; HYDRODYNAMIC EFFECTS; SURFACE PRESSURE;

POINT DEFECTS;

EID: 38549120981     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.037801     Document Type: Article

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