Dipolar colloids in nematostatics: Tensorial structure, symmetry, different types, and their interaction

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

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Pergamenshchik, V M ^a,b   Uzunova, V A ^b  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COULOMB LAW; DIPOLAR COLLOIDS; DIPOLE COMPONENT; DIRECTOR DISTRIBUTION; DIRECTOR FIELDS; ELASTIC DIPOLE; ELECTRIC DIPOLE; INTERACTION POTENTIALS; ISOTROPIC STRENGTH; MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURE; MIXED TYPE; MULTIPOLES; SHAPE SYMMETRY; SYMMETRY GROUPS; TWO-COMPONENT;

COLLOID CHEMISTRY; ELECTROSTATICS; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 79952523950     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.83.021701     Document Type: Article

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