Nematic disclinations as twisted ribbons

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

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Čopar, Simon ^a   Porenta, Tine ^a   Žumer, Slobodan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

CHOLESTERIC PITCH; COLLOIDAL STRUCTURES; DISCLINATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE; GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES; NEMATICS; SYMMETRY PROPERTIES; TOPOLOGICAL RULES; TWIST ANGLES; TWISTED RIBBON;

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY;

EID: 81555228487     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.84.051702     Document Type: Article

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