Tricritical Points in Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Incorporating Nonlinear Optics
- Vol. 192 (1) , 185-189
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00268949008035628
Abstract
A molecular theory is applied to the problem of the tricritical point existence in ferroelectric liquid crystals. Various cases of the tricritical points locations on the density - temperature phase diagrams are discussed.Keywords
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