A new multicritical point in a single component liquid crystal: high pressure study of DOBBCA

Shashidhar, R. ; Kalkura, A. N. ; Chandrasekhar, S. (1982) A new multicritical point in a single component liquid crystal: high pressure study of DOBBCA Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 82 . pp. 311-316. ISSN 1058-725X

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Abstract

We report here the results of our high pressure optical and DTA studies on the compound 4(4-n-decyloxybenzoyloxy)-benzylidene-4'-cyanoaniline. The P-T diagram shows a new kind of multicritical point, viz., a reentrant nematic-smectic C-smectic A point at 0.52 ± 0.02 kbar, 86.2 ± 0.2°C.

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