Landau-de Gennes model for nonuniform configurations in nematic liquid crystalline elastomers

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

Volumn 69, Issue 6 1, 2004, Pages

  Simoes M ^a   De Campos, A ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DEFORMATION; ELASTOMERS; ENTROPY; FREE ENERGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PROBABILITY; STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

ELASTIC FREE ENERGY; ELASTIC NEMATIC DOMAINS; FRANK FREE ENERGY; LANDAU-DE GENNES MODEL;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 42749101531     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.69.061704     Document Type: Article

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