A model for mesophase wetting thresholds of sheets, fibers and fiber bundles

Soft Matter

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 5002-5009

  Rey, Alejandro D ^a   Golmohammadi, Mojdeh ^a   Herrera Valencia, Edtson E ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION FACTORS; CARBON SHEETS; CARBON SUBSTRATES; CARBONACEOUS MESOPHASES; DISCOTIC NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; FIBER BUNDLES; IN-PLANE; ISOTROPIC FLUIDS; ISOTROPIC LIQUID; LONG RANGE; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MESOPHASES; MICRON RANGE; MICRON SIZE; MODEL-BASED; NEMATIC ORDER; SINGLE FIBER; SUBSTRATE SURFACE;

AMPLIFICATION; DISPLAY DEVICES; ELASTICITY; FIBERS; GEOMETRY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PAPER SHEETING; SUBSTRATES; WETTING;

CARBON FIBERS;

CARBON FIBERS; ELASTICITY; FIBERS; GEOMETRY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; PAPER; SHEETING; SUBSTRATES; WETTING;

EID: 79955661327     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c1sm05113j     Document Type: Article

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