Kinetics of the isotropic-nematic phase transition in melted multi-component liquid crystal mixtures upon cooling

Phase Transitions

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 302-310

  Bronnikov, Sergei ^a   Kostromin, Sergei ^a   Zuev, Vjacheslav V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Isotropic nematic phase transition; Liquid crystal mixtures; Nematic phase growth; Statistical size distribution

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CLUSTER GROWTH; CO-EXISTING; DROPLET DIAMETERS; FUNCTION OF TIME; IR SPECTROMETRY; IRREVERSIBLE THERMODYNAMICS; ISOTROPIC-NEMATIC PHASE TRANSITIONS; LIQUID CRYSTAL MIXTURES; MULTICOMPONENTS; NEMATIC DROPLETS; NEMATIC PHASE; NEMATIC PHASE GROWTH; NEMATIC PHASIS; OPTICAL IMAGE; STATISTICAL ENSEMBLES; STATISTICAL SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TWO-REGIME;

COALESCENCE; DROP FORMATION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; GROWTH KINETICS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MIXTURES; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHASE SEPARATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 77951493494     PISSN: 01411594     EISSN: 10290338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01411591003708673     Document Type: Article

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