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Tricritical Exponents for the Isotropic-nematic Transition: An Experimental Verification
P. H. Keyes,J. R. Shane +1 more
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This article is published in Physical Review Letters.The article was published on 1979-03-12. It has received 60 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Quantum phase transition & Critical dimension.read more
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Phase transitions in liquid crystals
TL;DR: 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.
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Landau theory of the nematic-isotropic phase transition
TL;DR: A review of the wide variety of predictions that results from a Landau-type of description of the nematic-isotropic phase transition is given in this paper, which includes a discussion of the nature of the order parameter and of the various types of possible phases.
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Biomolecules and Polymers in High Steady Magnetic Fields
G. Maret,K. Dransfeld +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of recent progress in our knowledge about the behaviour of synthethic and biological macromolecules and larger biological particles in dilute solution and in the liquid crystalline state, when exposed to strong magnetic fields is presented.
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Critical heat capacity near the nematic-smectic-A transition in octyloxycyanobiphenyl in the range 1-2000 bar
TL;DR: In this article, an ac calorimetric technique was used to study the nematic-smectic-$A$ and nematicisotropic ($N\ensuremath{-}I$) transitions in octyloxycyanobiphenyl (8OCB) along a series of isobars between 1 atm and 2 kbar.
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Dielectric, calorimetric and mesophase properties of 1′′-(2′,4-difluorobiphenyl-4′-yloxy)-9′′-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yloxy) nonane: an odd liquid crystal dimer with a monotropic mesophase having the characteristics of a twist-bend nematic phase
Nerea Sebastián,David López,Beatriz Robles-Hernández,Beatriz Robles-Hernández,M. R. de la Fuente,Josep Salud,M. A. Perez-Jubindo,D. A. Dunmur,Geoffrey R. Luckhurst,D. J. B. Jackson +9 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that the low temperature mesophase exhibits the characteristics of a twist-bend nematic phase, and the nematic-to-isotropic phase transition has been exhaustively studied from the accurate evolution of the heat capacity and the static dielectric permittivity data.