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Cotton-Mouton constants and pretransitional phenomena in the isotropic phase of liquid crystals
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The Cotton-Mouton constants for three homologous series of liquid crystals were measured in the isotropic phase as mentioned in this paper, and the results were compared with theories on pretransitional phenomena.Abstract:
The Cotton-Mouton constants for three homologous series of liquid crystals were measured in the isotropic phase. Some of these measurements were performed with high temperature resolution. The results are compared with theories on pretransitional phenomena. The Landau-de Gennes theory proves to be inadequate to describe the data.read more
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