Polydomain growth at isotropic-nematic transitions in liquid crystalline polymers

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

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Yabunaka, Shunsuke ^a   Araki, Takeaki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; CONCENTRATED SOLUTION; CONFINED SYSTEMS; CRITICAL LENGTH; DISCLINATIONS; GEOMETRICAL CONSTRAINTS; GROWTH EXPONENT; INITIAL DISTANCE; ISOTROPIC-NEMATIC TRANSITIONS; LATE STAGE; PARALLEL ORIENTATION; POLYDOMAIN; RODLIKE MOLECULES; RODLIKE POLYMER; ROTATIONAL DIFFUSION; SELF-SIMILARITIES; THREE DIMENSIONS; TIME EVOLUTIONS; TIME-DEPENDENT GINZBURG-LANDAU EQUATION; TWO-DIMENSION;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALS; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 79961099195     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.83.061711     Document Type: Article

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