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Nuclear relaxation in a nematic liquid crystal

Philip Pincus
- 01 Feb 1969 - 
- Vol. 7, Iss: 4, pp 415-417
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In this paper, the authors estimate the contributions to T1 and T2 in a nematic liquid crystal arising from the fluctuations in the orientational order, which results in relaxation times of the order of one second which is typical of ordinary liquids.
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This article is published in Solid State Communications.The article was published on 1969-02-01. It has received 263 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biaxial nematic & Liquid crystal.

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Physics of liquid crystals

Michael J. Stephen, +1 more
- 01 Oct 1974 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the physical properties of nematic, cholesteric, and smectic liquid crystals are discussed and a wide variety of phenomena in liquid crystals, including elastic distortions, disclinations, flow properties, fluctuations, light scattering, wave propagation, nuclear magnetic resonance, effects of magnetic and electric fields, electrohydrodynamics, and optical properties.
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Short Range Order Effects in the Isotropic Phase of Nematics and Cholesterics

P. G. de Gennes
- 01 Feb 1971 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assume that the local state of order in the isotropic phase is a symmetric traceless tensor Qαβ, proportional to the anisotropic part of a tensor property such as the magnetic susceptibility.
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Field-Cycling NMR Relaxometry

Rainer Kimmich, +1 more
- 30 Jul 2004 - 
TL;DR: The main objective of field-cycling experiments [231, 367] is to obtain information on the spectral density of the fluctuating spin interactions in a frequency range as wide as possible as mentioned in this paper.
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Stochastic‐molecular theory of spin–relaxation for liquid crystals

Jack H. Freed
- 01 May 1977 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the statistical interdependence of the faster rotational reorientation of the individual spinbearing molecules and the (slower) director or order-parameter fluctuations.
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Phenomenology of short-range-order effects in the isotropic phase of nematic materials

P. G. de Gennes
- 15 Dec 1969 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the magnetic birefringence, the intensity and the width in frequency of the Rayleigh scattering, and the flow bireringence are discussed in terms of a small number of phenomenological parameters.