Pattern-stabilized decorated polar liquid-crystal fibers

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Eremin, Alexey ^a   Kornek, Ulrike ^a   Stern, Stephan ^a   Stannarius, Ralf ^a   Araoka, Fumito ^b   Takezoe, Hideo ^b   Nádasi, Hajnalka ^c   Weissflog, Wolfgang ^c   Jákli, Antal ^d  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^d KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYLINDRICAL FIBERS; EXOTIC STATE; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FIBER MATERIALS; FLUID FILAMENTS; GEOMETRIC FRUSTRATION; GEOMETRICAL CONSTRAINTS; LIQUID CRYSTAL PHASE; LIQUID-CRYSTAL FIBERS; LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE PHASIS; PERIODIC PATTERN; POLAR ORDER; POLAR STRUCTURES; POLARIZATION-MODULATED; RADIAL COMPRESSION; RAYLEIGH-PLATEAU INSTABILITY; SMECTIC LAYERS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFECTS; FIBERS; POLARIZATION;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84863653808     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.017801     Document Type: Article

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