Splay and bend elastic constants in the nematic phase of some disulfide bridged dimeric compounds

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

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Kundu, Brindaban ^a,d   Pal, Santanu Kumar ^b   Kumar, Sandeep ^c   Pratibha, R ^c   Madhusudana, N V ^c  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c RAMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH MOHALI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKYL CHAIN; CARBON ATOMS; CYANOBIPHENYLS; DIMERIC COMPOUNDS; LINEAR CONFORMATION; MONOMERIC UNITS; NEMATIC PHASE; NEMATIC-ISOTROPIC TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; ROTATIONAL FLUCTUATIONS; SULFUR ATOMS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

CONFORMATIONS; ELASTIC CONSTANTS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; SULFUR;

DIMERS;

EID: 78651442475     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.061703     Document Type: Article

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