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Orientational Transition in a Liquid Crystal Triggered by the Thermodynamic Growth of Interfacial Wetting Sheets
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Orientational Transition in a Liquid Crystal Triggered by the Thermodynamic Growth of Interfacial Wetting Sheets

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Thermodynamic stability of interfacial gaseous states

Xue Hua Zhang, Nobuo Maeda, Jun Hu

    The Journal of Physical Chemistry. B
    |October 10, 2008
    PubMed

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