Nematic wetting and filling of crenellated surfaces

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

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Silvestre, N M ^a,b   Eskandari, Z ^b   Patricio P ^b,c   Romero Enrique, J M ^d   Telo Da Gama, M M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORBED FLUIDS; ANCHORING STRENGTH; CORRELATION LENGTHS; FIRST ORDER TRANSITIONS; GEOMETRICAL PARAMETERS; GLOBAL PHASE DIAGRAMS; INTERMEDIATE REGIMES; ISOTROPIC-NEMATIC INTERFACE; LANDAU-DE GENNES FREE ENERGY; NEMATICS; NUMERICAL MINIMIZATION; SIMPLE FLUIDS; SURFACE CHANGES; SURFACE PARAMETER; UNBINDING TRANSITIONS;

FILLING; PHASE DIAGRAMS; SEPARATION; WETTING;

INTERFACE STATES;

EID: 84863938248     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.86.011703     Document Type: Article

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