Dynamics of thermotropic liquid crystals across the isotropic-nematic transition and their similarity with glassy relaxation in supercooled liquids

Advances in Chemical Physics

Volumn 141, Issue , 2009, Pages 249-319

  Chakrabarti, Dwaipayan ^a   Bagchi, Biman ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

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EID: 63249132578     PISSN: 00652385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470431917.ch6     Document Type: Article

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