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Investigation of the Quasi-Liquid Crystal Structure
Shvartsman, Felix P.,Cabrera, Ivan R.,Weis, Alexander L.,Wachtel, Ellen J.,Krongauz, Valeri A.
, p. 3941 - 3946 (2007/10/02)
Quasi-lipid crystals, a metastable mesophase of thermochromic spiropyrans containing mesogenic groups, were investigated by different methods.Miscibility studies, X-ray diffraction, and UV-visible and FT-IR spectroscopy indicate that the material behaves basically as a nematic mesophase.Comparison of data of the present work with that obtained earlier by optical and ESR investigation of the behavior of fluorescent and paramagnetic probes results in the formulation of a structural model for quasi-liquid crystals.
