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The fluorescence spectra of the nematic liquid crystal n-pentyl-n′-cyanobiphenyl (5CB) in porous glasses with pores from 1 to 44 nm in diameter are investigated. A decrease in the pore diameter leads to suppression of some long-wavelength spectral components corresponding to H-type predimer and dimer pairs (the molecular sieve effect). The spectrum of 5CB in small pores (smaller than 4 nm in diameter) can be explained by the superposition of the monomer fluorescence and the fluorescence of J-type dimer pairs of 5CB molecules, as well as associates of 5CB molecules and surface groups on pore walls. Exposure of samples to UV light enhances the molecular interaction in associates, possibly, due to the formation of strong chemical bonds.
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Original Russian Text © O.V. Yaroshchuk, Yu.P. Piryatinskiĭ, L.A. Dolgov, T.V. Bidna, D. Enke, 2006, published in Optika i Spektroskopiya, 2006, Vol. 100, No. 3, pp. 437–443.
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Yaroshchuk, O.V., Piryatinskiĭ, Y.P., Dolgov, L.A. et al. Fluorescence of the nematic liquid crystal 5CB in nanoporous glasses. Opt. Spectrosc. 100, 394–399 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0030400X06030143
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