Nematic-Isotropic Transition in Porous Media
- 27 June 1994
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 72 (26) , 4113-4116
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.72.4113
Abstract
Motivated by recent experiments on the nematic-isotropic transition in porous media, two simplified models are proposed and studied using mean field theory and Monte Carlo simulations. The results are in qualitative accord with those found in the experimentsKeywords
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