High-resolution calorimetric study of the nematic to smectic- A transition in aligned liquid crystal–aerosil gels
High-resolution ac calorimetry has been used to study the nematic to smectic-A (N-SmA) phase transition in the liquid crystal octylcyanobiphenyl (8CB) confined in aligned colloidal aerosil gels. A stable and robust nematic alignment was achieved by repeated thermal cycling of the samples in the pres...
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American Physical Society
2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51743 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6458-1866 |