Erol Akpinar

TL;DR: In this article, the biaxial nematic phase domain is present in a window of values of, where is the number of carbon atoms in the alkyl chain of KL.

TL;DR: The behavior of the symmetric tensor order parameter invariants σ3 and σ2 calculated from the measured optical birefringences supports that the uniaxial-to-biaxial transitions are of second order, described by a mean-field theory.

TL;DR: In this paper, the biaxial nematic phase domain is present in a window of values of n = nKL \pm 2, where n KL = 11 is the number of carbon atoms in the alkyl chain of KL, and the alcohol molecules tend to segregate in the micelles in a way that depends on the relative value of n with respect to n kL.

TL;DR: Lyotropic cholesteric liquid crystalline phases were prepared by doping the quaternary mixture of potassium laurate/potassium sulfate/water with the chiral agent brucine and interpreted in terms of the nanosegregation of the alcohol molecules in the micelles with respect to the main amphiphiles molecules.

TL;DR: In this paper, a mixture of potassium laurate/decanol/water presenting only the uniaxial nematic calamitic phase was doped with one strong (potassium chloride, KCl) and 11 weak electrolytes with phenyl-rings.