Exact calculations of the paranematic interaction energy for colloidal dispersions in the isotropic phase of a nematogenic material

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2002, Pages

  Fournier, J B ^a   Galatola, P ^b  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DISPERSIONS; EXTRAPOLATION; FLOCCULATION; FREE ENERGY; FUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STABILITY;

ISOTROPIC PHASE; NEMATOGENIC MATERIAL; ORDER-PARAMETER PROFILE; PARANEMATIC INTERACTION ENERGY;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 41349123667     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.032702     Document Type: Article

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