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  • Title: Critical behavior at the isotropic-to-nematic phase transition in a bent-core liquid crystal.
    Author: Wiant D, Stojadinovic S, Neupane K, Sharma S, Fodor-Csorba K, Jákli A, Gleeson JT, Sprunt S.
    Journal: Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys; 2006 Mar; 73(3 Pt 1):030703. PubMed ID: 16605491.
    Abstract:
    Magnetic birefringence and dynamic light scattering measurements of orientational order parameter fluctuations at the isotropic-nematic phase transition of a bent-core liquid crystal reveal a pretransitional temperature dependence consistent with the standard Landau-deGennes mean field theory. However, as follows: the transition in the bent-core compound is more weakly first order (TNI-T* approximately 0.4 degrees C), the leading Landau coefficient is approximately 30 times lower, the viscosity associated with nematic order fluctuations is approximately 10 times higher, and the density change is approximately 10 times lower, than typically observed in calamitic (rod-shaped) liquid crystals. One consistent explanation for these anomalies is an optically isotropic phase composed of microscopic complexes or "clusters" of bent-core molecules.
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