Nematic textures in microfluidic environment

Soft Matter

Volumn 7, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 6542-6549

  Sengupta, Anupam ^a   Tkalec, Uro ^a   Bahr, Christian ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL DIMENSION; CHANNEL WALL; COLLOIDAL ASSEMBLY; DISCLINATION LINES; DISCLINATIONS; FLUORESCENCE CONFOCAL POLARIZING MICROSCOPIES; INDIVIDUAL PARTICLES; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICROFLUIDIC ENVIRONMENT; NEMATIC FLUIDS; NEMATIC TEXTURES; POLARIZING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; TOPOLOGICAL DEFECT;

LEAKAGE (FLUID); MICROFLUIDICS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; TEXTURES;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 79960154223     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c1sm05052d     Document Type: Article

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