Orientational coupling enhancement in a carbon nanotube dispersed liquid crystal

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

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Basu, Rajratan ^a   Iannacchione, Germano S ^a  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; AC VOLTAGE; ANCHORING ENERGIES; ANCHORING MECHANISM; COMPOSITE SYSTEMS; DIELECTRIC ANISOTROPIES; DILUTE SUSPENSIONS; DIRECTOR FIELDS; DISPERSED LIQUID CRYSTALS; ELASTIC DISTORTION; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; INTRINSIC FREQUENCY RESPONSE; ISOTROPIC PHASE; MONO-DISPERSED; NEMATIC DIRECTOR; NEMATIC MATRIX; ORIENTATIONAL ORDER PARAMETERS; SPLAY ELASTIC CONSTANTS; STRUCTURAL MODIFICATIONS;

ANISOTROPY; CARBON NANOTUBES; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; HYBRID SYSTEMS; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

FREQUENCY RESPONSE;

EID: 77952361116     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.051705     Document Type: Article

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