Pretransitional effects near the smectic- A -smectic- C* phase transition of hydrophilic and hydrophobic aerosil networks dispersed in ferroelectric liquid crystals

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

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Cordoyiannis, George ^a,b   Kralj, Samo ^b,c   Nounesis, George ^a   Kutnjak, Zdravko ^b   Žumer, Slobodan ^b,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROELECTRIC DEVICES; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

AEROSILS; FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; HYDROPHILIC AEROSIL NETWORKS; HYDROPHOBIC AEROSIL NETWORKS;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 33846868881     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.021702     Document Type: Article

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