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Letter

Stripe instabilities in the menisci of free-standing smectic films: influence of the phase sequence of the mesogenic material

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Pages 1415-1418 | Received 26 Nov 2017, Accepted 26 Feb 2018, Published online: 05 Mar 2018

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