Morphology of spinodal decompositions in liquid crystal-colloid mixtures

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 128, Issue 22, 2008, Pages

  Matsuyama, Akihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COLLOIDS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DEPOSITION; DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); FLUIDICS; FLUIDS; LEAD; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; MIXTURES; MORPHOLOGY; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHASE SEPARATION; POWDERS; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS; SEPARATION; SPINODAL DECOMPOSITION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

(1 1 1) ORIENTATION; (2+1)-DIMENSIONAL; AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (AIP); ASYMMETRIC MIXTURES; CELLULAR NETWORKS; COLLOIDAL PARTICLES; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONSERVED ORDER PARAMETER (COP); CRYSTALLINE MATRICES; CRYSTALLINE ORDERING; CRYSTALLINE PHASE; EARLY STAGES; FLUID MIXTURES; LANDAU GINZBURG EQUATIONS; NEMATIC DROPLETS; NEMATIC ORDERING; NEMATIC ORDERS; NEMATIC PHASE; NETWORK STRUCTURES; ORDER PARAMETER (OP); PHASE ORDERING; RICH PHASE; SPINODAL; TIME-DEPENDENT;

LIQUID PHASE EPITAXY;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; DRUG MIXTURE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; LIQUID CRYSTAL; TIME;

COLLOIDS; COMPLEX MIXTURES; KINETICS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 45149112467     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2936831     Document Type: Article

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