Surface Order Forces in Nematic Liquid Crystals

DOI10.1007/0-387-32153-5_5zbMath1181.76023OpenAlexW206757331MaRDI QIDQ3407195

Fulvio Bisi, Epifanio G. Virga

Publication date: 3 March 2010

Published in: Modeling of Soft Matter (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-32153-5_5

zbMATH Keywords

nematic liquid crystalsorder reconstructionbiaxial orderingorderforces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Liquid crystals (76A15)

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Cites Work

• Hydrostatic theory of liquid crystals
• Stability and instability of an uniaxial alignment against biaxial distortions in the isotropic and nematic phases of liquid crystals
• Continuum theory for nematic liquid crystals with tensorial order

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