Light scattering investigation above the nematic-smectic-A phase transition in binary mixtures of calamitic and bent-core mesogens

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

Volumn 68, Issue 3 1, 2003, Pages 317031-317036

  Dodge, Mohammad Reza ^a   Petschek, Rolfe G ^a   Rosenblatt, Charles ^a   Neubert, Mary E ^b   Walsh, Margaret E ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LIGHT SCATTERING; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

DOPANT CONCENTRATION; MESOGENS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0242578254     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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