Experimental Studies of Liquid Crystal Phase Transitions
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals
- Vol. 63 (1) , 145-155
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00268948108071991
Abstract
Some recent experiements that have been carried out at M.I.T. provide results that illustrate the effect of thermal fluctuations on order-disorder phase transitions.Keywords
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