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Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Volume 49, 1978 - Issue 3
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Influence of an Electric Field on the Flow Alignment Angle in Shear Flow of Nematic Liquid Crystals

Kent Skarp Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Fack S-402 20, Göteborg, Sweden
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Tomas Carlsson Department of Theoretical Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Fack S-402 20, Göteborg, Sweden; Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Fack S-402 20, Göteborg, Sweden
Pages 75-82 | Received 11 Oct 1978, Published online: 20 Apr 2011

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M.T. Cidade, G. Pereira, A. Bubnov, V. Hamplova, M. Kaspar & J.P. Casquilho. (2012) Rheological characterisation of a liquid-crystalline diol and its dependence with an applied electric field. Liquid Crystals 39:2, pages 191-197.
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