Surface-induced morphology and free-energy pathways in breakup of a nematic liquid crystalline cylinder

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

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Goyal, Rajesh K ^a   Denn, Morton M ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; COLLOIDS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; FREE ENERGY; GELATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

BIPHENYLCARBONITRILE; CRITICAL VALUES; CYLINDRICAL SHAPES; ENERGY PATHWAYS; FINITE ENERGY; FIRST ORDERS; FRANK FREE ENERGY; GEL STATE; HOMEOTROPIC; INTERFACE ORIENTATION; KINETIC TRAPPING; LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRANSITIONS; PERTURBATION AMPLITUDE; SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHM; SINUSOIDAL PERTURBATIONS;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

EID: 49549086638     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.021706     Document Type: Article

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