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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 4, 期 12, 页码 2587-2593出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b111485a
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Modulated differential scanning calorimetry (MDSC) has been used to obtain specific heat measurements on octyloxycyanobiphenyl (8OCB), octylcyanobiphenyl (8CB) and nonyloxycyanobiphenyl (9OCB) liquid crystals and on several binary mixtures of 8OCB + 9OCB and 8CB + 9OCB. The order of the mesophase transitions, smectic A(SmA) to nematic(N) and N to isotropic (I) on pure components and on binary mixtures has been studied and, in addition, both binary mesophase diagrams have been built. For each set of mixtures, there exists a tricritical point (TCP) composition at the SmA N transition. The TCP compositions have been found to be X-9OCB = 0.63 for the system 8OCB + 9OCB and X-9OCB = 0.42 for the system 8CB + 9OCB. In addition, the specific heat critical exponents (alpha) through second order SmA to N transition have been obtained between 8OCB(or 8CB) and the TCP composition for the two sets of binary mixtures. When these alpha-values were plotted against the normalised nematic range, a common and uniform crossover trend was found. Indeed, this fact suggests a uniform behaviour in terms of the McMillan ratio for the nCB and nOCB series of liquid crystals. Moreover, for these compounds there exists a common value of (T-AN/T-NI)(TCP) of 0.99 and also a value of (T-AN/T-NI)(3D-XY) of about 0.96.
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