Controlling disorder in liquid crystal aerosil dispersions

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

Volumn 69, Issue 4 1, 2004, Pages

  Jin, Tao ^a   Finotello, Daniele ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROGELS; ANNEALING; COMPOSITION; GELS; HYDROPHILICITY; HYSTERESIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POROSITY; SILICA; SPECIFIC HEAT; STRAIN;

DISORDER EFFECTS; ELASTIC STRAINS; SILICA AEROSIL; SILICA DENSITY;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 42749105953     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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