STUDY OF ISOTROPIC-NEMATIC PHASE-TRANSITION BY OPTICAL-FIELD-INDUCED MOLECULAR ALIGNMENT IN BINARY-MIXTURES

被引:5
作者
INOUE, K
SHEN, YR
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MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS | 1979年 / 51卷 / 3-4期
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1080/00268947908084704
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O6 [化学];
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0703 ;
摘要
The transient optical Kerr effect and the intensity-dependent ellipse rotation were used to study the pretransitional behavior of the field-induced molecular alignment in the isotropic phase of binary mixture of p-methoxy-benzylidene-p-n-butylaniline (MBBA) and 0-30% n-hexane. The results can be described very well by the Landau-de Gennes model in all cases. A number of relevant characteristic parameters of the medium are derived as functions of the n-hexane concentration.
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页码:179 / 187
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