Surface-induced orientational order in stretched nanoscale-sized polymer dispersed liquid-crystal droplets

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

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Amimori, Ichiro ^a   Eakin, James N ^a   Qi, Jun ^b   Skačej, Gregor ^c   Žumer, Slobodan ^c   Crawford, Gregory P ^a,b  

^a Brown University   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEPORE CAVITIES; POLYMER-DISPERSED LIQUID-CRYSTAL (PDLC); TEMPERATURE-INDEPENDENT SURFACE ORDERING MODEL; VYCOR GLASS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 41349112251     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.031702     Document Type: Article

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