Smectic- Cα* -smectic- C* phase transition and critical point in binary mixtures

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

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Liu, Z Q ^a   Wang, S T ^a   McCoy, B K ^a   Cady, A ^a   Pindak, R ^b   Caliebe, W ^b   Takekoshi, K ^c   Ema, K ^c   Nguyen, H T ^d   Huang, C C ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d CENTRE DE RECHERCHE PAUL PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHASE SEPARATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; REFLECTION; SPECIFIC HEAT; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

DIFFERENTIAL OPTICAL REFLECTIVITY; FIRST ORDER TRANSITION; HEAT CAPACITY MEASUREMENTS; ORDER PARAMETERS;

BINARY MIXTURES;

EID: 33749365311     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.030702     Document Type: Article

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