Magnetic field effects on tactoids of plate-like colloids

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Verhoeff, A A ^a   Otten, R H J ^b,c   Van Der Schoot, Paul ^d,e   Lekkerkerker, H N W ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c Utrecht University Group Theory of Polymers and Soft Matter ^*  (Netherlands)

^d EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCHORING STRENGTH; APPLIED MAGNETIC FIELDS; COLLOIDAL GIBBSITE PLATELETS; DIAMAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; DIRECTOR FIELDS; DIRECTOR-FIELD CONFIGURATION; DIRECTOR-FIELD STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; GIBBSITES; INTERFACIAL TENSIONS; MAGNETIC FIELD STRENGTHS; NEMATIC DROPLETS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; POLARIZED LIGHT MICROSCOPY; SPLAY ELASTIC CONSTANTS; SPLIT-CORE; STABILITY REGIONS; TACTOIDS;

ANISOTROPY; DEFECTS; ELASTIC CONSTANTS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETISM; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SURFACE TENSION;

MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

EID: 79551575823     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3520389     Document Type: Article

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