Two-step mechanism of rotational relaxation in lamellar phases of rods: Accelerating effect of the addition of spheres

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 25, 2009, Pages

  Cinacchi, Giorgio ^a   De Gaetani, Luca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATING EFFECT; ADJACENT LAYERS; INTERLAYER REGIONS; LAMELLAR PHASE; LAMELLAR PHASIS; ROTATIONAL RELAXATIONS; SMECTIC PHASE; SPHERE MIXTURES; TWO-STEP MECHANISMS;

LAMELLAR STRUCTURES; SIMULATORS;

SPHERES;

EID: 72049105328     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.257801     Document Type: Article

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