Phase structure and molecular dynamics of liquid-crystalline side-on organosiloxane tetrapodes

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

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Filip, D ^a,b   Cruz, C ^a,c   Sebastiao P J ^a,c   Cardoso, M ^a   Ribeiro, A C ^a,c   Vilfan, M ^d   Meyer, T ^e   Kouwer, P H J ^e   Mehl, G H ^e  

^a Centro de Fisica da Materia Condensada   (Portugal)

^b PETRU PONI INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY   (Romania)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^d JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC CORES; CALAMITICS; DIRECTOR FLUCTUATIONS; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; IN-BETWEEN; INTERDIGITATED STRUCTURE; INTERDIGITATIONS; ISOTROPIC PHASE; LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE; MESOGENIC GROUPS; MESOGENS; MESOPHASES; MICRO-SEGREGATION; MOLECULAR SELF-DIFFUSION; NEMATIC PHASE; NMR RELAXOMETRY; ORDERED PHASIS; ORGANO-SILOXANE TETRAPODES; PACKING MODELS; PROTON NMR; RELAXATION MECHANISM; RELAXATION RATES; SILOXANE CHAIN; SMECTIC C; SUB-LAYERS; TEMPERATURE RANGE; TILT ANGLE; TRANSLATIONAL DISPLACEMENTS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION DATA;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DENDRIMERS; DIFFRACTION; LIQUIDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 76149100581     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.011702     Document Type: Article

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