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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 (...

    C. S. P. Tripathi, P. Losada-Pérez, J. Leys in The European Physical Journal E (2012)

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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 ...

    B. Rožič, V. Tzitzios, E. Karatairi, U. Tkalec in The European Physical Journal E (2011)

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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...

    G. Cordoyiannis, B. Rožič, H. Finkelmann, S. Žumer in The European Physical Journal E (2010)

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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...

    P. Losada-Perez, G. Cordoyiannis in International Journal of Thermophysics (2010)

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    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...

    S. Pawlus, J. Osinska, S. J. Rzoska, S. Kralj in Soft Matter under Exogenic Impacts (2007)