Filling and wetting transitions of nematic liquid crystals on sinusoidal substrates

Close to sinusoidal substrates, simple fluids may undergo a filling transition, in which the fluid passes from a dry to a filled state, where the interface remains unbent but bound to the substrate. Increasing the surface field, the interface unbinds and a wetting transition occurs. We show that thi...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Patricio, Pedro (author)
Outros Autores: Silvestre, N. M. (author), Pham, C. -T. (author), Romero-Enrique, J. M. (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2013
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/2200
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ipl.pt:10400.21/2200