Angular forces between disclinations in elastically anisotropic  nematic liquid crystals

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dc.contributor.author	Ranganath, G.S.	-
dc.date.accessioned	2007-06-21T06:06:01Z	-
dc.date.available	2007-06-21T06:06:01Z	-
dc.date.issued	1980	-
dc.identifier.citation	Proceedings of the international liquid crystals conference, Bangalore, 1979. Ed. S Chandrasekhar. Heyden, 1980, p213-217	en
dc.identifier.issn	0-85501-163-7	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2289/3031	-
dc.description	Restricted Access.	en
dc.description.abstract	In elastically anisotropic nematic liquid crystals one finds a new type of interaction between disclinations. It is shown that energy is needed for one defect to move round another resulting in angular forces. To a first order in elastic anisotropy this force can easily be computed. When extended to long pitch cholesterics the theory brings out some interesting features observed experimentally. In particular, the observation that disclination pairs are always helical appears to follow naturally from the theory.	en
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dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Heyden	en
dc.rights	1980 Heyden	en
dc.title	Angular forces between disclinations in elastically anisotropic nematic liquid crystals	en
dc.type	Article	en
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