Unconventional ferroelectric behavior in nanosegregating liquid crystals with de Vries-like behavior

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

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Nonnenmacher, Dorothee ^a   Osipov, Mikhail A ^b   Roberts, Jeffrey C ^c   Lemieux, Robert P ^c   Giesselmann, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROELECTRIC BEHAVIOR; FIRST-ORDER; MESOGENS; SECOND-ORDER PHASE TRANSITION; SIDE CHAINS; SILOXANE MATERIALS; SPONTANEOUS POLARIZATIONS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCIES; THEORETICAL EXPLANATION; TILT ANGLE;

LIQUID CRYSTALS; POLARIZATION;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 77957262961     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.031703     Document Type: Article

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