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A new multicritical point in a single component liquid crystal: High pressure study of DOBBCA

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Gordon and Breach Science Publishers.

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We report here the results of our high pressure optical and DTA studies on the compound 4(4-n-decyloxybenzoyloxy)-benzylidene-4'-cyanoaniline. The P-T diagram shows a new kind of multicritical point, viz., a reentrant nematic-smectic C-smectic A point at 0.52 ± 0.02 kbar, 86.2 ± 0.2°C.

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Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Letters, 1982, Vol.82, p311-316

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1982 OPA (Overseas Publishers Association) N.V.