Liquid crystal microfluidics for tunable flow shaping

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Sengupta, Anupam ^a   Tkalec, Uroš ^a,b   Ravnik, Miha ^b,c,d   Yeomans, Julia M ^c   Bahr, Christian ^a   Herminghaus, Stephan ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^b Center of Excellence NAMASTE   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW PROFILE; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; MICROFLUIDIC FLOW; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; POLARIZING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; RECTANGULAR CROSS-SECTIONS; RELATIVE STABILITIES; TRANSVERSE TEMPERATURE;

ASPECT RATIO; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; EXPERIMENTS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

MICROFLUIDICS;

CHEMISTRY; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MICROFLUIDICS; PROCEDURES;

LIQUID CRYSTALS; MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 84873049359     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.048303     Document Type: Article

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