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Evidence from adiabatic scanning calorimetry for the Halperin-Lubensky-Ma effect at the N-SmA phase transitions in mixtures of 7OCB+heptane with an injected SmA phase
The high-resolution adiabatic scanning calorimetric technique has been used to investigate the nematic-smectic A transition (N-SmA in binary mixtures of the non-smectogenic liquid crystal heptyloxycyanobiphenyl (...
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Theoretical and experimental study of the nanoparticle-driven blue phase stabilisation
We have studied theoretically and experimentally the effects of various types of nanoparticles (NPs) on the temperature stability range ...
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Calorimetric study of the Paranematic-to-Nematic transition of polydomain side-chain liquid-crystalline elastomers with different mesogen composition
The phase transition behaviour of various nematic side-chain liquid-crystalline elastomers with different mesogen composition has been explored by means of high-resolution ac calorimetry. Polydomain samples of...
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Specific Heat Capacity of Nitrobenzene–Tetradecane Near the Liquid–Liquid Critical Point
High-resolution adiabatic scanning calorimetry has been used to study the specific heat capacity anomaly of the nitrobenzene–tetradecane mixture near its upper critical point. The analysis, which is based on a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Confined liquid crystaline 5CB in 2D Thermodynamic Space – Preliminary Dielectric Relaxation Study
Results of preliminary broadband dielectric spectroscopy studies in a wide range of temperatures and pressures range for a mixture of rod-like liquid crystalline 4–cyano–4–pentylalkylbiphenyl (5CB) and hydroph...