Orientational order of motile defects in active nematics

Nature Materials

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1110-1115

  DeCamp, Stephen J ^a   Redner, Gabriel S ^a   Baskaran, Aparna ^a   Hagan, Michael F ^a   Dogic, Zvonimir ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

COMPUTATIONAL REALIZATION; DISPLAY TECHNOLOGIES; DYNAMICAL STRUCTURE; LONG RANGE ORDERS; NON-EQUILIBRIUM PHASE; ORIENTATIONAL ORDERINGS; ROD-LIKE PARTICLES; TOPOLOGICAL DEFECT;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 84944718219     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4387     Document Type: Article

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