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A simple molecular theory of double reentrance exhibited by highly polar compounds

N. V. Madhusudana Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, 560080, India
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Jyotsna Rajan Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, 560080, India
Pages 31-40 | Received 15 Dec 1988, Accepted 12 Jul 1989, Published online: 24 Sep 2006

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N.V. Madhusudana. (2015) Dipolar origin of tilting of rod-like molecules in the smectic C phase. Liquid Crystals 42:5-6, pages 840-863.
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A. S. Govind & N. V. Madhusudana. (2000) A molecular theory including hard rod interactions of liquid crystalline phases exhibited by highly polar compounds. Liquid Crystals 27:9, pages 1249-1258.
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A. S. Govind & N. V. Madhusudana. (2000) A simple molecular model for N-SmAd-NdRe-N1Re-SmA1 phase sequence in highly polar compounds. Liquid Crystals 27:2, pages 215-218.
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M. Brodzik & R. Dabrowski. (1995) Induction of smectic Ad phase in polar systems I. Mixtures of nCBB and nOCB. Liquid Crystals 18:1, pages 61-66.
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Roman Dabrowski, Krzysztof Czupryński, Jan Przedmojski, Jan Baran, Jan Jadzyn & Grzegorz Czechowski. (1994) Variability of the Smectic a Layer Spacing and Dielectric Properties in the Homologous Series of 4-Isothiocyanatophenyl 4- (Trans-4-Alkylcyclohexyl) Benzoates. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology. Section A. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals 249:1, pages 51-59.
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D. Imbardelli, B. Wazynska, A. Golemme, G. Chidichimo & R. Dabrowski. (1993) 2H-NMR study of molecular order and dynamics in mixtures of 8OBCAB and nTPCHB. Molecular Physics 79:6, pages 1275-1286.
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A.S. Govind & N.V. Madhusudana. (1993) A simple molecular theory of a nematic–nematic phase transition in highly polar compounds. Liquid Crystals 14:5, pages 1539-1551.
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Xiaodong Shen & Ronald Y. Dong. (1998) A comparative study of dynamics in the nematic and reentrant-nematic phases of 60CB and 60CB/80CB mixture by deuteron nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation. The Journal of Chemical Physics 108:21, pages 9177-9185.
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Seiichi Miyajima & Takamasa Hosokawa. (1995) and NMR studies of dynamic orientational, translational, and dipolar orders in the doubly reentrant liquid crystal 4-cyanobenzoyloxy-[4-octylbenzoyloxy]- p -phenylene and its deuterated analog . Physical Review B 52:6, pages 4060-4071.
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