Nano-scale surface wrinkling in chiral liquid crystals and plant-based plywoods

Soft Matter

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1127-1139

  Rofouie, Pardis ^a   Pasini, Damiano ^a   Rey, Alejandro D ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PLYWOOD; WOOD PRODUCTS;

ANISOTROPIC SURFACE TENSION; CHIRAL LIQUID CRYSTALS; COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; GENERALIZED EQUATIONS; NANO-SCALE SURFACES; PRESSURE MECHANISMS; SURFACE-ANCHORING;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84961292005     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4sm02371d     Document Type: Article

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