Elasticity of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals probed by director reorientation in a magnetic field

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Zhou, Shuang ^a   Nastishin, Yu A ^a,b   Omelchenko, M M ^a   Tortora, L ^a   Nazarenko, V G ^c   Boiko, O P ^c   Ostapenko, T ^a   Hu, T ^a   Almasan, C C ^a   Sprunt, S N ^a   Gleeson, J T ^a   Lavrentovich, O D ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL OPTICS   (Ukraine)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION DEPENDENCE; COVALENTLY BOUND; DIRECTOR REORIENTATION; LYOTROPIC CHROMONIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; LYOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTAL; NONCOVALENT; ORGANIC MOLECULES; REVERSIBLE AGGREGATION; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SUNSET YELLOWS;

ELASTICITY;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 84863938139     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.037801     Document Type: Article

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