Journal article
Doping a Mixture of Two Smectogenic Liquid Crystals with Barium Titanate Nanoparticles
Publication Details
Authors: | Lorenz, A.; Zimmermann, N.; Kumar, S.; Evans, D.; Cook, G.; Martinez, M.; Kitzerow, H. |
Publisher: | AMER CHEMICAL SOC |
Publication year: | 2013 |
Journal: | Journal of Physical Chemistry B |
Pages range : | 937-941 |
Volume number: | 117 |
Issue number: | 3 |
Start page: | 937 |
End page: | 941 |
Number of pages: | 5 |
ISSN: | 1520-6106 |
eISSN: | 1520-5207 |
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Abstract
A mixture of two smectic liquid crystals was doped with harvested ferroelectric barium titanate nanoparticles and investigated with wide- and small-angle X-ray scattering during cooling from the isotropic phase. A decrease in the isotropic to nematic and in the nematic to partially bilayer smectic-A(d) (SmA(d)) phase transition temperatures was observed accompanied by an increase of the layer spacing in the SmA(d) phase.
A mixture of two smectic liquid crystals was doped with harvested ferroelectric barium titanate nanoparticles and investigated with wide- and small-angle X-ray scattering during cooling from the isotropic phase. A decrease in the isotropic to nematic and in the nematic to partially bilayer smectic-A(d) (SmA(d)) phase transition temperatures was observed accompanied by an increase of the layer spacing in the SmA(d) phase.
