The Bend and Splay Elastic Constants on Approaching an Injected Smectic Phase

17 October 1983

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Vol. 99 (1) , 107-116
https://doi.org/10.1080/00268948308072032

Abstract

Measurements have been made of the splay and bend elastic constants (k₁₁ and k₃₃) of a series of hybrid mixtures exhibiting an injected smectic phase. We have observed large pretransitional increases in k₁₁, k₃₃ and k₃₃/k₁₁ close to the smectic phase. Outside this pretransitional region k₁₁ increases and k33 decreases on approaching the injected smectic phase by changing composition or temperature. The results have been attributed to an enhancement in the smectic-ike local ordering in accord with a recent theory.

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