Effect of Electric Fields on the Temperature of Phase Transitions of Liquid Crystals
- 2 February 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 24 (5), 201-203
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.24.201
Abstract
It is proposed that the temperature of mesomorphic-isotropic phase changes and of transitions between mesophases may be markedly shifted by manageable electric fields. First experiments demonstrating such a shift in the nematic-isotropic transition of -ethoxybenzylidene--aminobenzonitrile are reported.
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