Multicritical behaviors and an induced twist grain boundary phase in a binary liquid crystalline mixture

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

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 519-525

  Ismaili M ^a   Anakkar, A ^a   Joly, G ^a   Isaert, N ^a   Nguyen, H T ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE PAUL PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; LIQUIDS; MIXTURES; PHASE DIAGRAMS;

BINARY LIQUIDS; MESOPHASES; MULTICRITICAL POINT; PHASE SEQUENCE; PHOTOTHERMAL METHODS; PURE COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE PHASE; TWIST GRAIN BOUNDARY PHASE;

GRAIN BOUNDARIES;

EID: 4243509542     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.61.519     Document Type: Article

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