Nematic-wetted colloids in the isotropic phase: Pairwise interaction, biaxiality, and defects

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 17, 2001, Pages 3915-3918

  Galatola, P ^a   Fournier, J B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; ANISOTROPY; DISPERSIONS; ELASTICITY; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TEXTURES; WETTING;

ISOTROPIC PHASE; NEMATIC WETTED COLLOIDS;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 4243391344     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.3915     Document Type: Article

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