Rheo-NMR studies of the behavior of a nematic liquid crystal in a low-shear-rate regime: The transition from director alignment to reorientation

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

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Lepper, C ^a   Edwards, P J B ^a   Schuster, E ^a   Brown, J R ^b   Dykstra, R ^c   Callaghan, P T ^c,d   Williams, M A K ^a,d  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b Idaho National Laboratory   (United States)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^d MACDIARMID INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED MATERIALS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; ANGULAR FREQUENCIES; COUETTE CELL; CRITICAL SHEAR RATES; CRYSTAL SYSTEM; CYLINDRICAL CELLS; DEUTERIUM NMR SPECTROSCOPY; DIRECTOR DYNAMICS; DIRECTOR ORIENTATION; DIRECTOR REORIENTATION; FORCE BALANCES; INNER CYLINDER; INNER WALLS; MAGNETIC FIELD DIRECTION; NEMATIC LIQUIDS; NMR SPECTRUM; NMR STUDIES; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; RADIAL LOCATIONS; ROTATIONAL AXIS; ROTATIONAL RATES; SHEAR FORCE; SHEAR RATES; SHEAR-RATE; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; STEPPER MOTOR; TIME EVOLUTIONS; VELOCITY GRADIENTS; VISCOUS TORQUE;

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DEUTERIUM; ELASTICITY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SHEAR DEFORMATION; SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

EID: 78651264379     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.041712     Document Type: Article

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