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Phase transitions in liquid crystals
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A comprehensive overview of phase transition studies can be found in this article, where the authors identify the essential key concepts and points of difficulty associated with the study of phase transitions and discuss the most widely used experimental techniques for measuring these transition properties.About:
This article is published in Physics Reports.The article was published on 2000-02-01. It has received 308 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Phase transition & Liquid crystal.read more
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Towards in silico liquid crystals. Realistic transition temperatures and physical properties for n-cyanobiphenyls via molecular dynamics simulations.
TL;DR: By using the united-atom force field developed herein, it is shown that the experimental isotropic-nematic transition temperatures are reproduced within 4 K, allowing a molecular-level interpretation of the odd-even effect along the series.
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Structure And Thermodynamics of Weakly Segregated Rod-Coil Block Copolymers
TL;DR: In this paper, the selfassembly of a series of monodisperse rod−coil block copolymers is studied in the weak segregation limit, and the order to microphase disorder transition (ODT) and nematic isotropic (NI) transition are experimentally investigated.
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Mechanochromic luminescence of halide-substituted difluoroboron β-diketonate dyes
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of halide substituents on mechanochromic luminescence quenching were investigated for a series of difluoroboron β-diketonate (BF2bdk) compounds.
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Universalization of the Phase Diagram for a Model Rod-Coil Diblock Copolymer
TL;DR: In this paper, the Flory−Huggins interaction is measured for a model rod-coil block copolymer system, poly(alkoxyphenylenevinylene-b-isoprene), by fitting the interfacial segregation of block copolerant to a homopolymer interface and by using the random phase approximation (RPA) for block co-olymers.
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Insight into entropy
TL;DR: In this article, the qualitative character of entropy has been investigated and several examples from statistical mechanics (including liquid crystal reentrant phases, two different lattice gas models, and the game of poker) demonstrate facets of this difficult question and point toward an answer.
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Theory of reorientational transitions in ferrielectric liquid crystals.
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Landau theory of the nematic-smectic-A phase transition under shear flow
TL;DR: In this article, the structure factor S(q) of a sheared nematic liquid crystal close to the nematic to smectic-A (N--Sm-A) phase transition is computed within Landau theory.
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Conoscopic study of the Scα∗ phase and the Devil's staircase in an antiferroelectric liquid crystal
Tadaaki Isozaki,Kazuyuki Hiraoka,Yoichi Takanishi,Hideo Takezoe,Atsuo Fukuda,Yoshiichi Suzuki,Ichiro Kawamura +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the molecular orientational structure of the Scα∗ phase has been studied by means of X-ray, dielectric and conoscopic measurements for 4-(1-methylheptyloxycarbonyl)phenyl 4′-octyl carbonyloxybiphenyl-4-carboxylate.
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Critical and Tricritical Behavior at the Nematic to Smectic-A transition,
TL;DR: In this paper, high-resolution x-ray scattering measurements of the nematic to smectic-$A$ transitions in two different homologous series are reported; it is found that the correlation-length exponents ${\ensuremath{-}2=0$ and the susceptibility exponent${\endsuremath{\gamma}$ decrease continuously with decreasing nematic range; the transitions ultimately become first order.