Flow induced deformation of defects around nanoparticles and nanodroplets suspended in liquid crystals

Soft Matter

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 896-901

  Gettelfinger, Brian T ^a   Moreno Razo, José Antonio ^a   Koenig Jr, Gary M ^a   Hernández Ortiz, Juan P ^b   Abbott, Nicholas L ^a   De Pablo, Juan J ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COARSE GRAINS; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FLOW-INDUCED DEFORMATION; LINE DEFECTS; LIQUID CRYSTAL MODEL; MANY-BODY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS; MOLECULAR THEORY; NANO-DROPLETS; NANODROPLET; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; SATURN RINGS; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; UPSTREAM DIRECTION;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALS; DEFECTS; FORECASTING; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOPARTICLES; POINT DEFECTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

ERINACEIDAE;

EID: 77249149546     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b912551e     Document Type: Article

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