Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 59, Number 6, September II 2002
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Page(s) | 848 - 854 | |
Section | Physics of gases, plasmas, and electric discharges | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2002-00120-y | |
Published online | 01 September 2002 |
Calorimetric study of nematic prewetting
Department of Physics, Kent State University -
Kent, OH 44242-0001, USA
Received:
12
November
2001
Accepted:
20
June
2002
We report specific-heat measurements for a series of liquid crystals imbedded in a porous cylindrical geometry. Above the nematic-to-isotropic transition and dependent on nematic width (or chain length), the specific heat shows a small peak. In analogy to known ellipsometry results, the peak is believed to be the signature of a nematic prewetting transition.
PACS: 61.30.Gd – Orientational order of liquid crystals; electric and magnetic field effects on order / 64.70.Md – Transitions in liquid crystals / 68.08.Bc – Wetting
© EDP Sciences, 2002
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