Calorimetric investigation of the isotropic to smectic-a phase transition of smectic liquid-crystalline elastomers

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Volumn 553, Issue , 2012, Pages 193-198

  Cordoyiannis, George ^a,b   Kramer, Dominic ^c   Lavrič, Marta ^d   Finkelmann, Heino ^c   Kutnjak, Zdravko ^a  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b EN FIST CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

ac calorimetry; elastomers; heat capacity; latent heat; smectic

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELASTOMERS; LATENT HEAT; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PLASTICS; SPECIFIC HEAT;

AC-CALORIMETRY; CROSS-LINKING DENSITY; FIRST ORDER; HIGH RESOLUTION; LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE ELASTOMERS; SMECTIC; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALLINE; SMECTIC-A;

CALORIMETRY;

EID: 84855936832     PISSN: 15421406     EISSN: 15635287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15421406.2011.609470     Document Type: Conference Paper

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