Influence of a long-chain alkane on the photoinduced nematic-isotropic transition

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

Volumn 69, Issue 2 1, 2004, Pages

  Nair, Geetha G ^a   Prasad, S Krishna ^a   Hegde, Gurumurthy ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR NANO AND SOFT MATTER SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; IRRADIATION; ISOMERIZATION; ISOMERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MIXTURES; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PERMITTIVITY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); VISCOSITY;

ISOTROPIC PHASES; LONG-CHAIN ALKANES; NEMATIC-ISOTROPIC TRANSITION; THERMAL BACK RELAXATION;

PARAFFINS;

EID: 42749105515     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.69.021708     Document Type: Article

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