Fluctuating nematic elastomer membranes

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

Volumn 68, Issue 2 1, 2003, Pages

  Xing, Xiangjun ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Ranjan ^b,c   Lubensky, T C ^b   Radzihovsky, Leo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTOMERS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHONONS; QUENCHING; RIGIDITY;

BENDING RIGIDITY; NEMATIC ELASTOMER MEMBRANES; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS;

POLYMERIC MEMBRANES;

EID: 45849154673     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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