Calorimetric study on optically isotropic liquid crystals

Article abstract of DOI:10.1080/10587250008024846

Heat capacities of optically isotropic mesogens, BABH(8), ANBC(16) and ANBC(18), have been measured by adiabatic calorimetry. The existence of solid-solid phase transitions with large entropy change seems to play a characteristic role for formation of the isotropic mesophase. Entropies of transition between the isotropic mesophases and the neighboring liquid crystalline phases are quite small. On the basis of the entropies of transition the possibility is suggested that the molecules might be aggregated in an identical manner in these two phases.

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Calorimetric Study on Optically
Isotropic Liquid Crystals
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Kazuya Saito , Ayako Sato , Nobuyuki Morimoto
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Yasuhisa Yamamura & Michio Sorai
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Research Center for Molecular Thermodynamics,
Graduate School of Science, Osaka University ,
Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, JAPAN
b
Center for New Materials, Japan Advanced
Institute of Science and Technology , Hokuriku, 1-1
Asahidai, Tatsunokuchi, Ishikawa, 923-1292, JAPAN
Published online: 24 Sep 2006.
To cite this article: Kazuya Saito , Ayako Sato , Nobuyuki Morimoto , Yasuhisa
Yamamura & Michio Sorai (2000) Calorimetric Study on Optically Isotropic
Liquid Crystals, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology.
Section A. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 347:1, 249-256, DOI:
10.1080/10587250008024846
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