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Biaxiality in a Cyclic Thermotropic Nematic Liquid Crystal

1994; Institute of Physics; Volume: 25; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1209/0295-5075/25/3/008

1286-4854

Jianfeng Li, Virgil Percec, Charles Rosenblatt, Oleg D. Lavrentovich,

Plant and animal studies

Birefringence and textural data are presented for a ring-shaped trimeric liquid crystal. The material apparently undergoes a uniaxial-to-biaxial nematic phase transition as a function of temperature.