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Calorimetric study of the nematic to smectic-\textit{A} and smectic-\textit{A} to smectic-\textit{C} phase transitions in liquid-crystal+aerosil dispersions
A. Roshi, G. S. Iannacchione, P. S. Clegg +2
A high-resolution calorimetric study has been carried out on nano-colloidal dispersions of aerosils in the liquid crystal 4-\textit{n}-pentylphenylthiol-4'-\textit{n}-octyloxybenzo…
First order isotropic - smectic-A transition in liquid crystal-aerosil gels
M. K. Ramazanoglu, P. S. Clegg, R. J. Birgeneau +3
The short-range order which remains when the isotropic to smectic-A transition is perturbed by a gel of silica nanoparticles (aerosils) has been studied using high-resolution synch…
Ring-Pattern Dynamics in Smectic-C* and Smectic-C_A* Freely Suspended Liquid Crystal Films
D. R. Link, L. Radzihovsky, G. Natale +5
Ring patterns of concentric 2pi-solitons in molecular orientation, form in freely suspended chiral smectic-C films in response to an in-plane rotating electric field. We present me…