Field-induced alignment of a smectic-a phase: A time-resolved x-ray investigation

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 121, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 4397-4413

  Bras, W ^a   Emsley, J W ^b   Levine, Y K ^c   Luckhurst, G R ^b   Seddon, J M ^d   Timimi, B A ^b  

^a EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUXES; FUNCTIONS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLYMERS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; ROTATION; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

FIELD-INDUCED ALIGNMENT; FLUX DENSITY; TIME-RESOLVED NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; TIME-RESOLVED X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 4644241322     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1776116     Document Type: Article

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