Growth laws for the phase ordering dynamics of the B1 phase of a bent-core liquid crystal

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

Volumn 70, Issue 2 1, 2004, Pages

  Chan, Hokei ^a   Dierking, Ingo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FREE ENERGY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); QUENCHING; SUPERCOOLING; THERMODYNAMICS;

ISOTRPIC PHASES; LOW-TEMPERATURE PHASES; NUCLEUS GROWTH; PHASE ORDERING DYNAMICS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 42749099551     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.021703     Document Type: Article

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