Key-lock mechanism in nematic colloidal dispersions

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

Volumn 69, Issue 6 1, 2004, Pages

  Silvestre, N M ^a   Patricio P ^a,b   Telo Da Gama, M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CAVITATION; COLLOIDS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; ELASTIC MODULI; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FREE ENERGY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SURFACE TENSION;

COLLOIDAL DISK; ISOTROPIC PARTICLES; LANDAU-DE FREE ENERGY; LIQUID CRYSTALLINE PHASE (LCP);

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 42749101395     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.69.061402     Document Type: Article

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