Critical behavior at the isotropic-to-nematic phase transition in a bent-core liquid crystal

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

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Wiant, D ^a   Stojadinovic, S ^a   Neupane, K ^a   Sharma, S ^a   Fodor Csorba, K ^b   Jakli A ^a   Gleeson, J T ^a   Sprunt, S ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTROPIC-NEMATIC PHASE TRANSITION; LANDAU-DEGENNES MEAN FIELD THEORY; MAGNETIC BIREFRINGENCE; MICROSCOPIC COMPLEXES;

BIREFRINGENCE; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; VISCOSITY;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 33645225954     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.030703     Document Type: Article

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