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SUBMITTER: Syme CD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5314399 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20170217
Frustration of crystallisation by locally favoured structures is critically important in linking the phenomena of supercooling, glass formation, and liquid-liquid transitions. Here we show that the putative liquid-liquid transition in n-butanol is in fact caused by geometric frustration associated with an isotropic to rippled lamellar liquid-crystal transition. Liquid-crystal phases are generally regarded as being "in between" the liquid and the crystalline state. In contrast, the liquid-crystal ...[more]