Anchoring energies and the nucleation of surface disclination lines in nematics
- 1 September 1973
- journal article
- other
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Philosophical Magazine
- Vol. 28 (3), 725-732
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14786437308221014
Abstract
Observation of the nucleation of surface disclination lines in nematics shows their correspondence to emergences of walls at the boundary of the sample; these lines have no core discontinuity and their width gives an estimate of the anchoring energy of the molecules to the surface.Keywords
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