Polymorphism, crystal-crystal and liquid crystalline thermotropic phase transition behaviour of even chain length zinc(II) n-alkanoates

Liquid Crystals

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 257-268

  Taylor, Richard A ^a   Ellis, Henry A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Differential scanning calorimetry; Polarising light microscopy; Polymorphism; Smectic C mesophase; Step wise melting process; Thermotropic phase behaviour; Zinc(II) n alkanoates

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249225584     PISSN: 02678292     EISSN: 13665855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678290902842594     Document Type: Article

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