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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volume 83, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.83.051705
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A cylindrical uniaxial liquid crystal was hydrogen-bonded with a tripod-shaped molecule. As the molecular number ratio of cylindrical liquid crystal to tripod molecule converges to 2:1, vertical bar s vertical bar = 1/2 disclination defects, which are a necessary condition of biaxial nematic phase, appeared predominantly. After the application of an electric field, the vertical bar s vertical bar = 1/2 disclinations converted to vertical bar s vertical bar = 1 disclinations which imply a transition from a biaxial to uniaxial state. IR dichroism measurements support the hypothesis that the liquid crystal-tripod molecule complex undergoes a molecular conformation change from bent shape to parallel shape, and this conformation change is thought to be related to a field-induced biaxial-uniaxial transition.
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