Paranematic-to-nematic ordering of a binary mixture of rod-like liquid crystals confined in cylindrical nanochannels

Sylwia Calus, Beata Jablonska, Mark Busch +3

We explore the optical birefringence of the nematic binary mixtures 6CB${}_{1-x}$7CB${}_x$ ($0\le x\le 1$) imbibed into parallel-aligned nanochannels of mesoporous alumina and silica…