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Symmetry and Critical Dynamics in Supercooled Liquid Crystals: Insights into the Glass Transition
Szymon Starzonek, Aleš Iglič, Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska +1
This study introduces a modeling approach aimed at elucidating the pivotal role of symmetry in phase transitions, focusing specifically on the isotropic-nematic (I-N) transition ch…
Broadband dielectric studies in linseed oil: Supercriticality and the New Insight into Melting/Freezing Discontinuous Transition
Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska, Sylwester J. Rzoska, Joanna Łoś
The long-range supercritical changes of dielectric constant, resembling ones observed in the isotropic phase of rod-like liquid crystalline compounds, are evidenced on approaching…
A Critical Insight into Pretransitional Behavior and Dielectric Tunability of Relaxor Ceramics
Sylwester J. Rzoska, Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska, Weronika Bulejak +4
The model discussion focused on links between the unique properties of relaxor ceramics and the basics of critical phenomena physics and glass transition physics. It indicates the…
The Story about One Island and Four Cities. The Socio-Economic Soft Matter Model - Based Report
Agata Angelika Rzoska, Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska
The report discusses the emergence of the Socio-Economic Soft Matter (SE-SM) as the result of interactions between physics and economy. First, demographic changes since the Industr…
Continuous Isotropic-Nematic transition in compressed rod-like based nanocolloid
Joanna Łoś, Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska, Sylwester J. Rzoska +2
Landau - de Gennes mean field model predicts the discontinuous transition for the Isotropic - Nematic transition, associated with uniaxial and quadrupolar order parameter in three…
Critical-like behavior of ionic-related, low-frequency dielectric properties in compressed liquid crystalline 8OCB and its nanocolloid
J. Łoś, A. Drozd-Rzoska, S. J. Rzoska
The report presents pressure-related broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS) studies in liquid crystalline octyloxycyanbiphenyl and its nanocolloid with BaTiO3 nanoparticles, focus…
Global Population Growth as Socio-Economic Soft Matter System Dynamics Evolution
Agata Angelika Rzoska, Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska
The report considers the dynamics of the global population as the unique case of the Socio-Economic Soft Matter system. This category was introduced for complex systems dominated b…
The impact of ionic contribution to dielectric permittivity in 11CB liquid crystal and its colloids with BaTiO3 nanoparticles
Joanna LOs, Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska, Sylwester J. Rzoska +1
The report shows the temperature behavior of the real part of dielectric permittivity in the static (dielectric constant) and lo-frequency (LF) domains in bulk samples of 11CB and…
Pretransitional behavior of electrooptic Kerr effect in liquid thymol
Aleksander Szpakiewicz Szatan, Sylwester J. Rzoska, Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska
Melting/freezing are canonical examples of discontinuous phase transitions, for which no pretransitional effects in the liquid phase are expected.For the solid phase, weak premelti…
New insight into 3-picoline - deuterium oxide (DO) mixtures of limited miscibility with the lower critical consolute temperature
Jakub Kalabinski, Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska, Sylwester J. Rzoska
Coexistence curves in mixtures of limited miscibility with the lower critical consolute temperature (LCT), of 3-picoline with deuterium oxide (DO), and D2O/H2O have been determ…
Criticality-related fundamental bases for new generations of gas-liquid, liquid-liquid, and liquid (LE) extraction technologies
Sylwester J Rzoska, Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska
The report presents results that can be considered as the reference for innovative generations of Supercritical Fluids (SCF), Liquid-Liquid (LL), and Liquid (L) extraction technolo…
New scaling paradigm for dynamics in glass-forming systems
Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska, Sylwester J. Rzoska, Szymon Starzonek
The lack of ultimate scaling relations for previtreous changes of the primary relaxation time or viscosity in glass-forming systems constitutes the grand fundamental challenge, als…
Pressure-driven relaxation processes in nanocomposite ionic glass LiFeVPO
Szymon Starzonek, Sylwester J. Rzoska, Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska +3
This paper presents results for systems formed in a solid glassy state after nanocrystallization process above the glass temperature. We analyze electric conductivity and relaxatio…
Strong pretransitional anomaly near glass transition
Szymon Starzonek, Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska, Sylwester J. Rzoska
In this report we present the first ever results of strong pretransitional effect observed for the maximum of absorption peak in supercooled liquid-crystalline…
New scaling of Adam-Gibbs relation in glass-forming systems
Szymon Starzonek, Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska, Sylwester J. Rzoska
In this letter we introduced a new scaling method based on Adam-Gibbs model. Moreover, generalised critical-like expression of configurational entropy S_C (T)=S_0 (1-T_K/T)^n is us…
Pretransitional effects of the isotropic liquid-plastic crystal transition
A. Drozd-Rzoska, S. Starzonek, S. J. Rzoska +3
We report on strong pretransitional effects across the isotropic liquid-plastic crystal melting temperature in linear and nonlinear dielectric response. Studies were carried out fo…
The impact of pressure on the critical miscibility of nitro compounds and n-alkanes mixtures
Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska, Sylwester J. Rzoska, Jakub Kalabinski
The impact of pressure on the critical consolute temperature in nitrobenzene, nitrotoluene, and nitropropane plus n-alkanes from pentane to eicosane is discussed.
The new face of the activation volume in glass forming systems
Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska
This report proposes the solution of the long standing problem regarding the key property governing the pressure related dynamics in glass forming and complex systems: the determin…
Universal behavior of the apparent fragility and the structural relaxation time for the high pressure previtreous effect
Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska
This report shows the universal previtreous behavior of the pressure related apparent fragility, i.e. the steepness index Basing on this finding, the 3-parameter relation for portr…
Universal behavior of the apparent fragility in ultraslow glass forming systems
Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska
Despite decades of studies on the grand problem of the glass transition the question of well-defined universal patterns, including the key problem of the previtreous behavior of th…
Unique dynamic crossover in supercooled x,3-dihydroxypropyl acrylate (x = 1, 2) isomers mixture
Szymon Starzonek, Aleksandra Kędzierska-Sar, Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska +2
The previtreous dynamics in glass forming monomer, glycerol monoacrylate (GMA), using broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS) was tested. Measurements revealed the clear dynamic cr…
Impact of BaTiO nanoparticles on phase transitions and dynamics in nematic liquid crystal - temperature and pressure studies
S. Starzonek, S. J. Rzoska, A. Drozd-Rzoska +2
Broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS) of pure 5OCB and nanocolloids consisting of 5OCB and paraelectric or ferroelectric BaTiO nanoparticles (NPs) was performed on varying…
Impact of nanoparticles on pretransitional effects in liquid crystalline dodecylcyanobiphenyl
S. J. Rzoska S. Starzonek, A. Drozd-Rzoska, K. Czupryński +5
The pretransitional behavior of dodecylcyanobiphenyl (12CB) (isotropic-smectic-A-solid mesomorphism) with nm nanoparticles (NPs) linked the cubic phase was monit…
Fractional Debye-Stokes-Einstein behaviour in an ultraviscous nanocolloid: glycerol and silver nanoparticles
Szymon Starzonek, Sylwester J. Rzoska, A. Drozd-Rzoska +4
One of hallmark features of glass forming ultraviscous liquids is the decoupling between translational and orientational dynamics. This report presents studies of this phenomenon i…