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The Rotator Phases of the Normal Alkanes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

E. B. Sirota ,
H.E. King Jr. ,
D.M. Singer  and
H. Shao
E. B. Sirota
Affiliation:
Corporate Research Science Laboratories, Exxon Research and Engineering Company, Route 22 East, Annandale, NJ 08801
H.E. King Jr.
Affiliation:
Corporate Research Science Laboratories, Exxon Research and Engineering Company, Route 22 East, Annandale, NJ 08801
D.M. Singer
Affiliation:
Corporate Research Science Laboratories, Exxon Research and Engineering Company, Route 22 East, Annandale, NJ 08801
H. Shao
Affiliation:
Corporate Research Science Laboratories, Exxon Research and Engineering Company, Route 22 East, Annandale, NJ 08801
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Abstract

We present results of an x-ray scattering study on the rotator phases of normal alkanes: CH2-(CH3)n-CH2 (20 ≤ ≤ 33). We have characterized a new tilted rotator phase and measured the distortion and tilt order parameters in all 5 rotator phases. We have shown that there is no strong even-odd chain effect within the rotator phases.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 248: Symposium O – Complex Fluids , 1991 , 77
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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