Elasticity-driven partial demixing in cholesteric liquid crystal films

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

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Schmidtke, Jürgen ^a   Coles, Harry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIRAL COMPOUND; CHIRAL NEMATICS; CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTAL FILMS; DE-MIXING; IMPROVING PERFORMANCE; POLYMERIC SYSTEMS;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID FILMS; PLASTIC FILMS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 68849091262     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.011702     Document Type: Article

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