Nanomechanics of order reconstruction in nematic liquid crystals

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

Volumn 70, Issue 4 1, 2004, Pages

  Bisi, Fulvio ^a   Virga, Epifanio G ^a   Durand, Georges E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FREE ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; RECONSTRUCTION (STRUCTURAL); TORQUE;

ANCHORINGS; NANOMETERS; NANOSTRUCTURES; REPULSIVE FORCE;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 41349087754     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.042701     Document Type: Article

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