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Abstract
Three-body effective interactions emerging between parallel cylindrical rods immersed in a nematic liquid crystals are calculated within the Landau-de Gennes free-energy description. Collinear, equilateral and midplane configurations of the three colloidal particles are considered. In the last two cases the effective triplet interaction is of the same magnitude and range as the pair one.Mesh:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17205211 DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2006-10065-5
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Eur Phys J E Soft Matter ISSN: 1292-8941 Impact factor: 1.890