1H NMR relaxometry study of a rod-like chiral liquid crystal in its isotropic, cholesteric, TGBA*, and TGBC* phases

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 114, Issue 37, 2010, Pages 11993-12001

  Apih, Tomaž ^a   Domenici, Valentina ^b   Gradišek, Anton ^a   Hamplová, Vera ^c   Kaspar, Miroslaw ^c   Sebastião, Pedro J ^d   Vilfan, Marija ^e  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^e Centro de Fisica da Materia Condensada   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

BROAD FREQUENCY RANGE; CHIRAL LIQUID CRYSTALS; CHIRAL NEMATICS; DIFFUSION PROCESS; FREQUENCY RANGES; LINEAR FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; MAGNETIZATION DECAY; MESOPHASES; METHYLENE GROUPS; MOLECULAR CORE; MOLECULAR GROUPS; NMR RELAXOMETRY; RELAXATION MECHANISM; SELF-DIFFUSION; SPIN LATTICES; TGB PHASIS; THERMAL STABILITY; TWIST GRAIN BOUNDARY;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 77956751757     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp105211q     Document Type: Article

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