Collective diffusion of colloidal hard rods in smectic liquid crystals: Effect of particle anisotropy

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 132, Issue 22, 2010, Pages

  Patti, Alessandro ^a   El Masri, Djamel ^a   Van Roij, Reń ^b   Dijkstra, Marjolein ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARRIER HEIGHTS; COLLECTIVE DIFFUSION; COLLOIDAL HARD RODS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; LENGTH TO DIAMETER RATIO; NEMATIC DIRECTOR; NON-GAUSSIAN; PACKING FRACTIONS; SMECTIC PHASE; SMECTIC PHASIS; SMECTIC-A LIQUID CRYSTALS; SUPERCOOLED LIQUIDS;

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; DIFFUSION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; SEDIMENTATION; SUPERCOOLING;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 77953580974     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3432864     Document Type: Article

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