High-pressure investigation of the reentrant nematic bilayer smectic-transition
- 1 November 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 18 (5), 2292-2306
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.18.2292
Abstract
We find that certain cyano Schiff bases and cyanobiphenyls with alkyl or alkoxy end groups exhibiting a bilayer smectic- phase, also exhibit a reentrant nematic phase at high pressure. A tentative model of the bilayer smectic- phase and the mechanism whereby the reentrant transition may occur is presented.
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