Bridging the gap between phenomenology and microscopic theory: Asymptotes in nematic colloids

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

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Sokolovska, T G ^a,b   Sokolovskii, R O ^a,b   Patey, G N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTROSTATICS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

COLLOIDAL SURFACES; MOLECULAR PARAMETERS; MOLECULAR THEORY; NEMATIC COLLOIDS;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 42149159940     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.77.041701     Document Type: Article

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