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Title: Measurement of the surface tension of CBOOA
Authors: Krishnaswamy, S.
Shashidhar, R.
Issue Date: 1977
Publisher: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers.
Citation: Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 1977, Vol.38, p353-356
Abstract: In continuation of our previously reported experimental studies on the surface tension of liquid crystals, measurements have been carried out on p-cyanobenzylidene p'-n-octyloxyaniline (CBOOA) in its smectic A, nematic and isotropic phases. The surface tension-temperature (b.gamma-T) characteristic shows a positive slope throughout the smectic phase, changes sign at the smectic A-nematic transition, remains negative over the entire nematic range and again reverses sign immediately after the nematic-isotropic transition, the positive slope now continuing for a few degrees in the isotropic phase. These trends are compared with the theoretical predictions of Croxton and Chandrasekhar.
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2289/2759
ISSN: 1058-725X
Alternative Location: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15421407708084399
Copyright: 1977 OPA (Overseas Publishers Association) N.V.
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