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Ordered States of a Nematic Liquid
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This article is published in Physical Review Letters.The article was published on 1970-05-11. It has received 533 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biaxial nematic & Liquid crystal.read more
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Physics of liquid crystals
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
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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Bent-Core Liquid Crystals: Their Mysterious and Attractive World
Hideo Takezoe,Yoichi Takanishi +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, structural and properties of liquid crystalline phases formed by bent-core molecules are reviewed and the most attractive properties of this new class of liquid crystals are in polarity and chirality, despite being formed from achiral molecules.
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Observation of a Biaxial Nematic Phase in Potassium Laurate-1-Decanol-Water Mixtures
TL;DR: In this article, the ternary system potassium laurate-1-decanol-D${2}\mathrm{O}$ was studied over concentration ranges where nematic phases are likely to occur.
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Crystalline liquids: the blue phases
David C. Wright,N. David Mermin +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a pedagogical introduction to the current understanding of the equilibrium structure of cholesteric liquid crystals accompanied by a general overview of major experimental results.
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Eine einfache molekular-statistische Theorie der nematischen kristallinflüssigen Phase. Teil II
Wilhelm Maier,Alfred Saupe +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a mittlere Innere Feld einer nematischen Molekülanordnung abgeleitet, and gezeigt, daß this Innere Field in einem gewissen Temperaturbereich einen nematicalhen Ordnungszustand bewirken muß and daß dieser ordnung sustand was with einer bestimmten Temperatur diskontinuierlich und unter Energieaufnahme in die isot
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Biaxial Liquid Crystals
TL;DR: In this paper, liquid crystals biaxial smectic C phases tilt and optic axial angles determined from convergent light observations are determined from convergence-based light observations.
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Specific heats of nematic, smectic, and cholesteric liquid crystals by differential scanning calorimetry
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Optical‐Rotatory Power and Linear Electro‐optic Effect in Nematic Liquid Crystals of p‐Azoxyanisole
TL;DR: In this article, a detailed examination of the symmetry elements of the experiments leads to a model in which all effects are traced back to the properties of a single molecule, and it is concluded that the nematic liquid lacks a center of symmetry and is, in this way, similar to the polar crystal classes in solids.