Splay bend elasticity of a bent-core nematic liquid crystal

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

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Sathyanarayana, P ^a,b   Mathew, M ^a,b,c   Li, Q ^a,b   Sastry, V S S ^a,b   Kundu, B ^a,b   Le, K V ^a,b   Takezoe, H ^a,b   Dhara, Surajit ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENT-CORE LIQUID CRYSTALS; NEMATIC PHASE; NEMATIC RANGES; NEMATIC-ISOTROPIC TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; ORDER PARAMETER; SMECTIC PHASE; STRONG COUPLING; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 76349116287     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.010702     Document Type: Article

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