Role of radius on prewetting behavior in nematic liquid-crystal droplets

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

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Kadivar, Erfan ^a  

^a PERSIAN GULF UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

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Indexed keywords

BULK NEMATIC; CRITICAL RADIUS; FIRST-ORDER; LANDAU-DE GENNES THEORY; MAXWELL CONSTRUCTION; NEMATIC LIQUIDS; NEMATIC-ISOTROPIC TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; PRE-WETTING; SPHERICAL SOLID SURFACE; SURFACE ENERGIES; TEMPERATURE INTERVALS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DROP FORMATION; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION;

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EID: 68949094087     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.011701     Document Type: Article

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