Elastic anisotropy at a glance: The optical signature of disclination lines

Soft Matter

Volumn 6, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 5434-5442

  Buscaglia, Marco ^a   Lombardo, Giuseppe ^b   Cavalli, Lorenzo ^a   Barberi, Riccardo ^b   Bellini, Tommaso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TOOL; DEFECT LINES; DISCLINATION LINES; ELASTIC ANISOTROPY; LENGTH SCALE; MOLECULAR ORDERING; NEMATICS; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; OPTICAL SIGNATURES; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODELING; TOPOLOGICAL DEFECT;

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; DEFORMATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; TOPOLOGY;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 77958105427     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c0sm00578a     Document Type: Article

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