Isotropic Liquid Phase Transition in the Homologous Series
of Calamite Liquid Crystals
E. M. Aver’yanov
Kirenskii Institute of Physics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Akademgorodok, Krasnoyarsk, 660036 Russia
E-mail: aver@iph.krasn.ru
Received October 15, 2002
Abstract—A simple formula was obtained that very accurately described changes in the temperature of the
nematic (cholesteric)–isotropic liquid phase transition in the homologous series for all known Tc(n) dependence
types (monotonic and nonmonotonic). The formula was confirmed for a wide range of calamite liquid crystals
of various chemical classes. Relations between monotonic and nonmonotonic Tc(n) functions were established
and confirmed for homologous series of various compounds.
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