Dominant biaxial quadrupolar contribution to the nematic potential of mean torque

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

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Bisi, Fulvio ^a   Luckhurst, Geoffrey R ^b   Virga, Epifanio G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FLOW INTERACTIONS; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

INTERACTION PARAMETERS; ISOTROPIC TRANSITION TEMPERATURES; MAIER-SAUPE THEORY; ORIENTATIONAL ORDER PARAMETERS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 50849134627     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.021710     Document Type: Article

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