Director field of birefringent stripes in liquid crystal/nanoparticle dispersions

Liquid Crystals

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1151-1156

  Urbanski, Martin ^a   Kinkead, Brandy ^a,b   Hegmann, Torsten ^b   Kitzerow, Heinz S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disclinations; Fluorescence confocal polarising microscopy; Liquid crystals; Nanocrystals

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956547999     PISSN: 02678292     EISSN: 13665855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2010.489160     Document Type: Article

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