Number of elastic coefficients in a biaxial nematic liquid crystal
- 1 September 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 26 (3) , 1783-1784
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.26.1783
Abstract
It is shown by explicit calculation that there are 12 bulk elastic constants and 3 surface terms in the elastic energy of biaxial nematics.Keywords
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