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Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2002 Mar;65(3):030701. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.030701. Epub 2002 Feb 27.

Dramatic effect of an additional CH2 group on the temperature variation of the Sm-C(*)(alpha) short helical pitch.

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics

A Cady, D A Olson, X F Han, H T Nguyen, C C Huang

Affiliations

  1. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.

PMID: 11909016 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.030701

Abstract

High-resolution differential optical reflectivity was used to study the temperature evolution of the short helical pitch in the Sm-C(*)(alpha) phase of successive members from two liquid-crystal homologous series. With the addition of one CH2 group, the magnitude and temperature evolution of the pitch change dramatically, and the molecular arrangements between consecutive surface layers found in free-standing films change from being anticlinic to synclinic.

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