Smectic pores and defect cores

Interface Focus

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 617-622

  Matsumoto, Elisabetta A ^a   Kamien, Randall D ^b   Santangelo, Christian D ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Minimal surfaces; Smectic liquid crystals; Topological defects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865384285     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2011.0095     Document Type: Article

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