Understanding the distinctive elastic constants in an oxadiazole bent-core nematic liquid crystal

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

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Kaur, S ^a   Addis, J ^a   Greco, C ^b   Ferrarini, A ^b   Gortz V ^c   Goodby, J W ^c   Gleeson, H F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMISTIC MODELING; LIQUID CRYSTAL SYSTEMS; NEMATIC PHASE; NEMATIC SYSTEMS; ORDER PARAMETER; OXADIAZOLES; TEMPERATURE RANGE;

ELASTICITY; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

ELASTIC CONSTANTS;

EID: 84867468037     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.86.041703     Document Type: Article

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