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Dynamic light scattering from orientational order fluctuations in a liquid crystalline tetrapode reveals successive, weakly first-order isotropic to uniaxial and uniaxial to biaxial nematic phase transitions. The order parameter relaxation rates exhibit temperature dependences consistent with Landau–de Gennes mean field theory. Combined with previous evidence of a second-order uniaxial-biaxial transition in a closely related tetrapode, the present study supports the existence of a nematic-nematic tricritical point in thermotropic liquid crystals. |
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2006-11-17
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Physical Review Letters
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97
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20
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Recommended Citation |
Neupane, K.; Kang, Shin-Woong; Carney, D.; Meyer, T.; Mehl, G. H; Allender, David W; Kumar, Satyendra; Sprunt, Samuel N. (2006). Dynamic Light Scattering Study of Biaxial Ordering in a Thermotropic Liquid Crystal. Physical Review Letters 97(20) doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.207802. Retrieved from https://oaks.kent.edu/phypubs/11
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Copyright 2006 American Physical Society. Available on publisher's site at http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.207802.