Biaxial order and a rotation of the minor director in the nematic phase of an organo-siloxane tetrapode by the electric field
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K. Merkel, M. Nagaraj, A. Kocot, A. Kohlmeier, G. H. Mehl and J. K. Vij, Biaxial order and a rotation of the minor director in the nematic phase of an organo-siloxane tetrapode by the electric field, Journal of Chemical Physics, 136, 2012, 094513-Download Item:
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Biaxiality in the nematic phase for a liquid crystalline tetrapode made up of organo-siloxanes mesogens is investigated using polarized infrared spectroscopy. An ordering of the minor director for the homeotropically aligned sample is found to depend on the amplitude of the in-plane electric field. On increasing the in-plane electric field, the minor director, lying initially along the rubbing direction, rotates to the direction of the applied field. The scalar order parameters of the second rank tensor are found to depend significantly on the strength of the electric field. A most significant increase is found in the nematic order parameter and in the parameter that characterizes the phase biaxiality.
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