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Monodomain liquid crystalline networks: reorientation mechanism from uniform to stripe domains

EUGENE R. ZUBAREV
,
SERGEI A. KUPTSOV
,
TATYANA I. YURANOVA
,
RAISSA V. TALROZE
&
HEINO FINKELMANN
Pages 1531-1540 | Received 01 Sep 2001, Published online: 06 Aug 2010

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