Apparent tricritical behavior at a nearly second-order nematic-isotropic phase transition of a cyclic liquid crystalline trimer

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 1 1, 2003, Pages 117041-117044

  Syed, Ishtiaque M ^a   Percec, Virgil ^b   Petschek, Rolfe G ^a   Rosenblatt, Charles ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHASE TRANSITIONS; SPECIFIC HEAT; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE;

OPTICAL RETARDATION;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0038731238     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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