[PDF][PDF] Prediction from molecular shape of solute orientational order in liquid crystals

EE Burnell, CA De Lange - Chemical Reviews, 1998 - academia.edu
Liquid crystals represent a very interesting state of matter because they show anisotropic
properties normally found in solids, in combination with a degree of fluidity characteristic of …

[LLIBRE][B] Liquid crystals: fundamentals

S Singh - 2002 - books.google.com
Liquid crystals are partially ordered systems without a rigid, long-range structure. The study
of these materials covers a wide area: chemical structure, physical properties and technical …

2H-NMR Spectroscopy of Solids and Liquid Crystals

GL Hoatson, RL Vold - Solid-State NMR III Organic Matter, 1994 - Springer
Abstract Deuteron Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy (2 H-NMR) is an extremely powerful
technique for investigating molecular structure and dynamics. This aticle covers the last five …

Chain orientation in natural rubber, Part II: 2H-NMR study

J Rault, J Marchal, P Judeinstein, PA Albouy - The European Physical …, 2006 - Springer
Stress-induced crystallisation (SIC) and stress-induced melting (SIM) in natural rubbers
(NR), unfilled and filled with carbon black (CB) have been studied by 2 H-NMR …

Understanding the unusual transitional behaviour of liquid crystal dimers

A Ferrarini, GR Luckhurst, PL Nordio, SJ Roskilly - Chemical physics letters, 1993 - Elsevier
The transitional properties of liquid crystal dimers within a homologous series differ
significantly depending on whether the spacer joining the two mesogenic groups contains …

Molecular composites for molecular reinforcement: a promising concept between success and failure

B Schartel, JH Wendorff - Polymer engineering & science, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
The basic principles of molecular reinforcement and especially the specific approaches to
obtain homogeneous composites with molecularly dispersed rigid rods are focused on and …

Probing molecular ordering in the nematic phases of para-linked bimesogen dimers through NMR studies of flexible prochiral solutes

LM Heist, ET Samulski, C Welch, Z Ahmed… - Liquid …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The quadrupolar splittings of perdeuteriated n-decane dissolved in nematic phases formed
by mesogenic dimers of the CBnCB series, for n= 7, 9, 10, 11, are measured throughout the …

Molecular flexibility in nematics: from alkanes to dimer mesogens

DJ Photinos, ET Samulski, H Toriumi - Journal of the Chemical Society …, 1992 - pubs.rsc.org
The 'chord model'of flexible alkane solute ordering in the nematic phase (DJ Photinos, ET
Samulski and H. Toriumi, J. Phys. Chem., 1990, 94, 4688; 4694) is extended to dimer …

NMR order parameter analysis of a peptide plane aligned in a lyotropic liquid crystal

F Separovic, R Pax, B Cornell - Molecular Physics, 1993 - Taylor & Francis
A full order parameter analysis has been carried out on a peptide plane of gramicidin A in
aligned phospholipid bilayers. The most ordered molecular axis was determined to be the …

[HTML][HTML] Communication: molecular dynamics and 1H NMR of n-hexane in liquid crystals

ACJ Weber, EE Burnell, WL Meerts… - The Journal of …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
The NMR spectrum of n-hexane orientationally ordered in the nematic liquid crystal ZLI-
1132 is analysed using covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy (CMA-ES). The …