Curvature control of valence on nematic shells

Soft Matter

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 670-683

  Kralj, Samo ^a,b   Rosso, Riccardo ^c   Virga, Epifanio G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY SHAPE; COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; EQUILIBRIUM CONFIGURATION; GAUSSIAN CURVATURES; MOLECULAR BRIDGES; NEMATIC MOLECULES; ORDER PARAMETER; TENSORIAL FORMALISM;

LIQUID CRYSTALS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

DEFECTS;

EID: 78651375988     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c0sm00378f     Document Type: Article

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