Tricritical Behavior in a Liquid-Crystal System

3 September 1973

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 31 (10) , 628-630
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.31.628

Abstract

The isotropic-cholesteric and cholesteric-smectic-

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phase transitions in cholesteryl oleyl carbonate have been studied for pressures up to 7 kbar. The latter transition possesses a tricritical point at 2.66 kbar and 60.3°C, where the behavior changes from first to second order.

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