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http://hdl.handle.net/2289/2363| Title: | Coupling between nematic and smectic ordering in reentrant nematic systems |
| Authors: | Shashidhar, R. Somasekhara, S. Ratna, B.R. |
| Keywords: | smectic-nematic coupling reentrant nematics phase diagrams |
| Issue Date: | Mar-1986 |
| Publisher: | Gordon and Breach Science Publishers. |
| Citation: | Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 1986, Vol.133, p19-29 |
| Abstract: | We present here experimental evidence of the coupling between smectic and nematic ordering in systems exhibiting the reentrant nematic phase. Pressure-temperature diagrams of a large number of systems have been studied. In every case the major axis of the elliptically shaped smectic A-nematic phase boundary is found to be nearly parallel to the nematic-isotropic phase boundary although the slopes vary widely from system to system. Similar correlations are also shown to exist in the temperature-concentration diagram of binary systems. A few representative phase diagrams are presented which illustrate this point. |
| Description: | Restricted Access. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2289/2363 |
| ISSN: | 1058-725X |
| Alternative Location: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00268948608079558 |
| Copyright: | 1986 OPA (Overseas Publishers Association) N.V. |
| Appears in Collections: | Research Papers (SCM) |
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