Continuous nematic anchoring transition due to surface-induced smectic order

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

Volumn 67, Issue 4 1, 2003, Pages 417061-417065

  Shioda, Tatsutoshi ^a   Wen, Bing ^a   Rosenblatt, Charles ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; ELASTICITY; FREE ENERGY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PHASE TRANSITIONS; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

HOMEOTROPIC ALIGNMENT;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 4043091601     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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