Liquid crystal relaxation in three dimensions: The effect of hydrodynamic interactions;Relajación de cristales líquidos en tres dimensiones: El efecto de las interacciones hidrodinámicas

DYNA (Colombia)

Volumn 75, Issue 156, 2008, Pages 185-193

  Gettelfinger, Brian T ^a   Hung, Fransisco R ^a   Hernandez Ortiz, Juan P ^b   Guzman, Orlando ^c   Rey, Alejandro D ^d   Abbott, Nicholas L ^a   de Pablo, Juan J ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Mexico)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Confinement and hydrodynamic interactions; Defect relaxation; Liquid crystal

Indexed keywords

EID: 67549094942     PISSN: 00127353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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