Nature of the Molecular Alignment in a Smectic-Phase
- 24 February 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 34 (8), 451-454
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.34.451
Abstract
Quasielastic neutron scattering experiments on terephthal-bis-butylaniline (TBBA) show that the phenyl rings do not have a strongly preferred orientation in the smectic- (tilted ) phase. This suggests that the Meyer-McMillan model is not quite adequate for this particular system.
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