Singular Elastic Properties of Mixtures with the Re-entrant Nematic Phase

• Authors: G. Czechowski , J. Jadżyn
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper presents temperature behavior of the splay and bend elastic constants measured for n-hexyloxycyanobiphenyl and n-octyloxycyanobiphenyl mixtures - a system exhibiting the re-entrant nematic phase. It was shown that singularities in the elastic properties of the system concern not only the nematic phase (the well-known pre-smectic effects) but first of all - the smectic A phase, in which the splay and bend deformations, normally not allowed for the layered structures, can be induced.

Keywords

EN

64.70.Md; 62.20.Dc; 61.30.-v

Discipline

• 61.30.-v: Liquid crystals(for phase transitions in liquid crystals, see 64.70.M-; for liquid crystals as dielectric materials, see 77.84.Nh; for liquid crystals as optical materials, see 42.70.Df; for liquid crystal devices, see 42.79.Kr)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 106
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 475-485

Dates

published

2004-10

received

2004-06-03

Contributors

author

G. Czechowski

• Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, M. Smoluchowskiego 17, 60-179 Poznań, Poland

author

J. Jadżyn

• Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, M. Smoluchowskiego 17, 60-179 Poznań, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.106.475