Shaping thin nematic films with competing boundary conditions

European Physical Journal E

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1-5

  Manyuhina, O V ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Soft Matter: Liquid crystals

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS;

CAPILLARY PHENOMENA; DIRECTOR CONFIGURATION; ELASTIC ANISOTROPY; LIQUID CRYSTALLINE; LONG-WAVELENGTH LIMITS; RADIAL GEOMETRIES; ROTATIONAL SYMMETRIES; SOFT MATTER;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 84922119832     PISSN: 12928941     EISSN: 1292895X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2014-14048-7     Document Type: Article

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