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Phenomenology of short-range-order effects in the isotropic phase of nematic materials

P. G. de Gennes
- 15 Dec 1969 - 
- Vol. 30, Iss: 8, pp 454-455
TLDR
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.
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This article is published in Physics Letters A.The article was published on 1969-12-15. It has received 301 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Flow birefringence & Birefringence.

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Relaxation of the Induced Orientational Order in the Isotropic Phase of Nematic Polymer

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the Kerr effect and dielectric spectroscopy to study the orientational dynamics of a comb-shaped nematic polymer with mesogenic and functional side groups.
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Nuclear relaxation in a nematic liquid crystal

TL;DR: 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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Quasielastic Rayleigh Scattering in Nematic Liquid Crystals

TL;DR: Using a light-beat laser spectrometer, the authors observed the relaxation of the thermally excited fluctuations of anisotropy in the nematic phase of $p\ensuremath{-}\mathrm{azoxyanisole}$.