Abstract
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has provided a unique opportunity to study the characteristic smectic-A to chiral nematic phase transition in a dimesogenic liquid crystal ("KI-5S"). The order parameters in the liquid crystalline phases were obtained from the 2H NMR quadrupole splitting and 13C NMR chemical shift measurements, manifesting a first-order smectic-nematic phase transition.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1356-1359 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Current Applied Physics |
Volume | 14 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2014 Oct |
Keywords
- Deuterium NMR and carbon NMR
- Dimesogenic liquid crystal
- Order parameters
- Smectic to chiral nematic phase transition
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Materials Science(all)
- Physics and Astronomy(all)