The activated morphology of grain boundaries in nematic solid sheets

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8279, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Modes, Carl D ^a   Warner, Mark ^b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

grain boundaries; nematic solids; shape change; switching; topological defects

Indexed keywords

DISCLINATION DEFECTS; GAUSSIAN CURVATURES; MATERIAL DEFORMATION; SHAPE CHANGE; THIN SHEET; TOPOLOGICAL DEFECT;

DEFECTS; DEFORMATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; SWITCHING; TEXTURES;

GRAIN BOUNDARIES;

EID: 84857515954     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.916788     Document Type: Conference Paper

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