Dielectric investigations of the dynamic glass transition in nanopores

M Arndt, R Stannarius, W Gorbatschow, F Kremer - Physical Review E, 1996 - APS
Abstract Broadband dielectric spectroscopy (10− 2 Hz–10 9 Hz) is employed to study the
dynamic glass transition of low-molecular-weight glass-forming liquids being confined to …

Universality and scaling in the disordering of a smectic liquid crystal

T Bellini, L Radzihovsky, J Toner, NA Clark - Science, 2001 - science.org
We present experimental and theoretical studies of the effects of quenched disorder on one-
dimensional crystal ordering in three dimensions. This fragile smectic liquid crystal layering …

Calorimetric and small angle x-ray scattering study of phase transitions in octylcyanobiphenyl-aerosil dispersions

GS Iannacchione, CW Garland, JT Mang, TP Rieker - Physical Review E, 1998 - APS
High-resolution calorimetric studies have been made of the liquid crystal phase transitions
for several dispersions of 70-Å-diam silica spheres (aerosil) in octylcyanobiphenyl (8CB) as …

Calorimetric study of octylcyanobiphenyl liquid crystal confined to a controlled-pore glass

Z Kutnjak, S Kralj, G Lahajnar, S Žumer - Physical Review E, 2003 - APS
We present a calorimetric study of the phase behavior of octylcyanobiphenyl (8CB) liquid
crystal confined to a controlled-pore glass (CPG). We used CPG matrices with characteristic …

Smectic liquid crystals in random environments

L Radzihovsky, J Toner - Physical Review B, 1999 - APS
We study smectic liquid crystals in random environments, eg, aerogel. A low-temperature
analysis reveals that even arbitrarily weak quenched disorder (ie, arbitrarily low aerogel …

Dielectric spectroscopy of liquid crystals in smectic, nematic, and isotropic phases confined in random porous media

GP Sinha, FM Aliev - Physical Review E, 1998 - APS
The dielectric behavior of alkylcyanobiphenyls (5CB and 8CB) confined in porous matrices
with randomly oriented, interconnected pores with two different mean pore sizes (1000 and …

Smectic ordering in liquid-crystal–aerosil dispersions. I. X-ray scattering

RL Leheny, S Park, RJ Birgeneau, JL Gallani… - Physical Review E, 2003 - APS
Comprehensive x-ray scattering studies have characterized the smectic ordering of
octylcyanobiphenyl (8CB) confined in the hydrogen-bonded silica gels formed by aerosil …

Quantum dot-driven stabilization of liquid-crystalline blue phases

G Cordoyiannis, M Lavrič, M Trček, V Tzitzios… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Liquid crystals hosting nanoparticles comprise a fascinating research field, ranging from
fundamental aspects of phase transitions to applications in optics and photonics. Liquid …

Slow stress relaxation in randomly disordered nematic elastomers and gels

SM Clarke, EM Terentjev - Physical review letters, 1998 - APS
Randomly disordered liquid crystalline elastomers align under stress. We study the
dynamics of stress relaxation before, during, and after the polydomain-monodomain …

A multiscale time-Laplace method to extract relaxation times from non-stationary dynamic light scattering signals

F Liénard, É Freyssingeas, P Borgnat - The Journal of chemical …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) is a well-known technique to study the relaxation times of
systems at equilibrium. In many soft matter systems, we actually have to consider non …