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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
卷 82, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.050701
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- DST, Govt. of India [SR/FTP/PS-48/2006]
- CAS School of Physics
- CSIR-UGC
We measured the splay (K-11) and bend (K-33) elastic constants in the nematic phase of a liquid crystal with T-shaped molecules. We find that the ratio, K-33/K-11 similar or equal to 1 in the entire nematic range except very close to the nematic to Sm-A (SN) transition. Both K-33 and K-11 show pretransitional divergence as the SN transition is approached from higher temperature. The ratio, K-33/K-11 suggests that the length (L) to effective width (D) ratio (i.e., L/D) is significantly smaller due to the presence of long and flexible lateral group, compared to that of rigid rodlike molecules. It is argued that apart from the extra contribution to the elasticity the long and flexible lateral group also has a significant contribution to the suppression of the splay fluctuations in the onset of smectic short-range fluctuation. The structure of the Sm-A phase is investigated by using small angle x-ray diffraction, and a possible arrangement of the molecules in the Sm-A layer is proposed.
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