Electrolyte effects on a nearly second order nematic-isotropic phase transition in a micellar liquid crystal

Presumably the acoustical attenuation arises from coupling of sound waves with both fluctuations of the director and magnitude of the order parameter. Unfortunately it is

Precise measurements of the Kerr effect [6, 9] and magnetic birefringence [6, 7] in the isotropic phase of. some nematic substances have been

It is shown in this paper that the Onsager reciprocal relations, that reflect the time-reversal invariance of the equations of motion of the individual particles, lead

of mixed rods and disks, and in the context of an entropy model for hard cylinders, the data indicate the relative fraction of rods and disks as the KL

Effect of micellar flexibility on the isotropic-nematic phase transition in solutions of linear

2014 We present an ultrasonic investigation of the nematic-isotropic phase transition in p-azoxyanisole (PAA). Our measurements were performed at several frequencies

In particular, we present the experimental demonstration of the new orientational mode associated to the rotations of the biaxial « director », and the observation,

2014 Nous étudions le diagramme de phase d’un système dense de particules allongées avec une interaction Coulombienne, et montrons l’existence d’une transition