Confinement induced splay-to-bend transition of colloidal rods

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Dammone, Oliver J ^a   Zacharoudiou, Ioannis ^a   Dullens, Roel P A ^a   Yeomans, Julia M ^a   Lettinga, M P ^b   Aarts, Dirk G A L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL RODS; LASER SCANNING CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; LATTICE BOLTZMANN SIMULATIONS; NEMATIC PHASE; SIMPLE METHOD; SINGLE PARTICLE; WEDGE GEOMETRY; WEDGE-OPENING;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; VIRUSES;

ELASTICITY;

EID: 84866115972     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.108303     Document Type: Article

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