Biaxiality-induced magnetic field effects in bent-core nematics: molecular field and Landau theory
Nematic liquid crystals composed of bent-core molecules exhibit unusual properties, including an enhanced Cotton-Mouton effect and an increasing isotropic (paranematic)-nematic phase transition temperature as a function of magnetic field. These systems are thought to be good candidate biaxial liquid...
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2013-12-12.
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