| dc.creator |
Duarte E. L. |
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| dc.creator |
Itri R. |
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| dc.creator |
Sampaio A. R. |
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| dc.creator |
Simões M. |
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| dc.creator |
Palangana A. J. |
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| dc.date |
2002 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2013-06-01T09:18:48Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2013-06-01T09:18:48Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
2013-06-01 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-97332002000300007 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=openurl&genre=article&issn=01039733&date=2002&volume=32&issue=2b&spage=495 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/7772 |
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| dc.description |
We have studied the in influence of the mean molecular length on the nature of the cholesteric (N*) - smectic A (A) liquid crystal phase transition for thermotropic compounds of cholesteryl myristate (C14), cholesteryl nonanoate (C9), and binary mixtures of C14 - C9 and cholesteryl caproate (C6) phase (dA), the mean molecular length (<img src="http:/img/fbpe/bjp/v32n2b/07eq01.gif">) in the N* domain, and the correlation length (epsilon), as well as changes along the N* - A phase transition, were determined from the X-ray diffraction data. The results show a decrease in A phase domain and an expansion of the N* - domain as the mean molecular length is diminished. Such effect induces a second order A - N* phase transition for a particular mixture of 63.1 mol% of C9 and 36.9 mol% of C6, evidenced by viscosity measurements in good agreement with previous density data. |
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| dc.publisher |
Sociedade Brasileira de Física |
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| dc.source |
Brazilian Journal of Physics |
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| dc.title |
Smectic A: cholesteric phase transition investigated by small angle X-ray diffraction and viscosity measurements |
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