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High Pressure Studies of Liquid Crystalline Transitions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

R. Shashidhar
R. Shashidhar*
Affiliation:
Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 560080, India
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Abstract

Some of the important results emerging from our recent investigations on liquid crystals at high pressure are presented. In particular the following topics will be discussed: i) The relation between Pm, the maximum pressure of smectic stability, and the temperature range of the nematic phase in reentrant nematogenic compounds. ii) Piezothermal studies in the vicinity of the smectic A-nematic transition in 8 OCB. iii) The effect of molecular ordering on the pressure behaviour of the nematic-isotropic transition in reentrant nematic mixtures. iv) The first observation of a multicritical point in a single component liquid crystal.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 22: Symposium NY – High Pressure in Science and Technology , 1983 , 119
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1984

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