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Tuning 'de Vries-like' properties in binary mixtures of liquid crystals with different molecular lengths
Song, Qingxiang,Bogner, Andreas,Giesselmann, Frank,Lemieux, Robert P.
supporting information, p. 8202 - 8204 (2013/09/12)
Smectic liquid crystals with 'de Vries-like' properties are characterized by a maximum layer contraction of ≤1% upon transition from the orthogonal SmA phase to the tilted SmC phase. We show that binary mixtures of 'de Vries-like' and conventional SmC mesogens with a molecular length ratio of 1.34 undergo a SmA-SmC phase transition with a maximum layer contraction ranging from 1.0 to 1.9% depending on the mixture composition.
