Texture formation mechanisms in faceted particles embedded in a nematic liquid crystal matrix

Soft Matter

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2052-2063

  Phillips, P M ^a   Rey, A D ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK DEFECTS; CALAMITICS; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; CRITICAL SLOWING DOWN; DEFECT ENERGY; DEFECT MODE; EMBEDDED PARTICLES; FACETED PARTICLES; FILLED NEMATICS; GEOMETRIC SINGULARITY; LANDAU-DE-GENNES MODEL; MATERIAL PROPERTY; NEMATIC LIQUIDS; STRING DEFECTS; TEXTURE FORMATION; THERMOTROPIC NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOMETRY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; SURFACE DEFECTS; TEXTURES; TEXTURING;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 79951886028     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c0sm01245a     Document Type: Article

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