Elastic constants of a nematic liquid crystal: Quadrupole-quadrupole interaction in the ellipsoidal approximation

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 372, Issue 43, 2008, Pages 6521-6526

  Ponti, S ^a   Freire, F C M ^a   Dias, J C ^b   Evangelista, L R ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Elastic constants; Liquid crystals; Orientational order

Indexed keywords

LIQUID CRYSTALS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

ELLIPSOIDAL APPROXIMATIONS; INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; ORIENTATIONAL ORDERINGS; QUADRUPOLAR INTERACTIONS; QUADRUPOLE INTERACTIONS; SCREENING LENGTHS; SOURCE OF INSTABILITY; THRESHOLD PHENOMENA;

ELASTIC CONSTANTS;

EID: 52949123595     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2008.08.079     Document Type: Article

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