Liquid Crystals

The tricritical and the re-entrant nematic behaviour are two of the most relevant features of the Smectic A (SmA)-to-Nematic (N) phase transition in binary mixtures of liquid crystals. Both of these concepts are studied from a theoretical and an experimental point of view for some two-component syst...

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Autores: Salud Puig, Josep|||0000-0002-9359-8122, López Pérez, David Orencio|||0000-0002-9522-8440
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/346450
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/346450
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68727-4_8
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Liquid crystals
Mixed crystals
Physics of liquid crystals
Calamitic liquid crystals
Molecular Mixed Crystals
Cristalls líquids -- Tecnologia
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Física::Física molecular
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Sumario:The tricritical and the re-entrant nematic behaviour are two of the most relevant features of the Smectic A (SmA)-to-Nematic (N) phase transition in binary mixtures of liquid crystals. Both of these concepts are studied from a theoretical and an experimental point of view for some two-component systems whose members are calamitic liquid crystals belonging to the alkylcyanobiphenyl (nCB) or alkoxycyanobiphenyl (nOCB) series, n being the number of the carbon atoms in the alkyl or alkoxy chain, respectively.