Temperature variation of film tension above the bulk smectic-A-isotropic transition in freestanding liquid-crystal films

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

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Veum, M ^a   Kutschera, E ^a   Voshell, N ^b   Wang, S T ^b   Wang, S L ^b   Nguyen, H T ^c   Huang, C C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c CENTRE DE RECHERCHE PAUL PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILM TENSION; FREESTANDING LIQUID-CRYSTAL FILMS (FSLCF); LAYER THINNING; TEMPERATURE VARIATION;

CARBON; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); TENSILE TESTING; THERMAL EFFECTS; THIN FILMS;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 41349085193     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.020701     Document Type: Review

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