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SUBMITTER: Kapernaum N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2839853 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Beilstein journal of organic chemistry 20091113
The phase diagrams of two mixtures of chemically similar smectogenic mesogens strongly differing in molecular length were investigated. In these mixtures the nematic phase present in the pure short mesogen disappeared rapidly on the addition of the longer mesogen, while the smectic state was preserved. In the smectic state the smectic A phase was the much more stable phase as the smectic C phase disappeared quite rapidly as well. In these compounds the loss of the smectic C phase is accompanied ...[more]