Elastic constants and orientational viscosities of a bent-core nematic liquid crystal

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

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Majumdar, M ^a   Salamon, P ^b   Jakli A ^a   Gleeson, J T ^a   Sprunt, S ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIXED TEMPERATURE; FRANK ELASTIC CONSTANTS; FREEDERICKSZ TRANSITION; ISOTROPIC-NEMATIC TRANSITIONS; NEMATIC PHASE; SMECTIC C;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; VISCOMETERS; VISCOSITY;

ELASTIC CONSTANTS;

EID: 79953139970     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.83.031701     Document Type: Article

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