The search for a Lifshitz point in a single-component liquid crystalline system: a high pressure study of 50.6

Shashidhar, R. ; Kalkura, A. N. ; Chandrasekhar, S. (1980) The search for a Lifshitz point in a single-component liquid crystalline system: a high pressure study of 50.6 Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 64 . pp. 101-107. ISSN 1058-725X

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01406568008072005

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Abstract

The pressure-temperature diagram of N-(4-n-pentyloxybenzylidene)-4'-n-hexylaniline has been investigated up to 8 kbar. The smectic C-smectic A and smectic A-nematic phase boundaries converge and nearly meet, indicating that a Lifshitz point is likely to occur at a higher pressure.

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