Competition between anisometric and aliphatic entities: An unusual phase sequence with the induction of a phase in an n-alkane-liquid crystal binary system

Langmuir

Volumn 30, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 4465-4473

  Kumar, M Vijay ^a   Krishna Prasad, S ^a   Rao, D S Shankar ^a   Mukherjee, P K ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR NANO AND SOFT MATTER SCIENCES   (India)

^b GOVERNMENT COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TEXTILE TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIQUID CRYSTALS; PARAFFINS;

ALIPHATIC UNITS; BINARY SYSTEMS; IMPORTANT FEATURES; LAYERED STRUCTURES; MOLECULAR ARRANGEMENTS; PHASE SEQUENCE; SMALL CONCENTRATION; STRUCTURAL CHARACTER;

SYSTEMS (METALLURGICAL);

EID: 84899425331     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la500367y     Document Type: Article

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