Nematic biaxiality in a bent-core material

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

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Yoon, Hyung Guen ^a   Kang, Shin Woong ^a,b   Dong, Ronald Y ^c   Marini, Alberto ^d   Suresh, Kattera A ^e   Srinivasarao, Mohan ^f   Kumar, Satyendra ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^e CENTRE FOR NANO AND SOFT MATTER SCIENCES   (India)

^f GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORBED GAS; BIAXIAL NEMATIC PHASE; BIAXIALITY; CARBON-13; CONOSCOPIC FIGURES; CONOSCOPY; CORE MATERIAL; CROSS-OVER FREQUENCIES; FREQUENCY SWITCHING; LOCAL ORDER; MALTESE CROSS; MESOGENES; NEMATIC ORDER; PHASE BIAXIALITY; POLARIZED OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE TRENDS; TEXTURAL CHANGES;

COREMAKING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 77952365245     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.051706     Document Type: Article

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