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Drag of a Cottrell atmosphere by an edge dislocation in a smectic-A liquid crystal

Overview of attention for article published in The European Physical Journal E, October 2017
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  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#36 of 650)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
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Title
Drag of a Cottrell atmosphere by an edge dislocation in a smectic-A liquid crystal
Published in
The European Physical Journal E, October 2017
DOI 10.1140/epje/i2017-11573-9
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Authors

P. Oswald, L. Lejček

Abstract

In a recent letter (P. Oswald et al., EPL 103, 46004 (2013)), we have shown that a smectic-A phase hardens in compression normal to the layers when the liquid crystal is doped with gold nanoparticles. This is due to the formation of Cottrell clouds nearby the core of the edge dislocations and the appearance of an additional drag force that reduces their mobility. We theoretically calculate the shape of the Cottrell cloud and the associated drag force as a function of the climb velocity of the dislocations. The main result is that the drag force depends on velocity and vanishes when the temperature tends to the smectic-A-to-nematic transition temperature. The role of the diffusion anisotropy is also evaluated.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 4 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Professor > Associate Professor 1 25%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 25%
Student > Master 1 25%
Unknown 1 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 1 25%
Materials Science 1 25%
Neuroscience 1 25%
Chemistry 1 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 43. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 October 2017.
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#844,807
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Outputs from The European Physical Journal E
#36
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Outputs of similar age
#19,069
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Outputs of similar age from The European Physical Journal E
#2
of 13 outputs
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