Shear viscosity of nematic liquid crystals in the vicinity of the smectic-A phase in alkyloxycyanobiphenyl mixtures.
The paper presents a singular temperature behavior of the shear viscosity measured for freely flowing nematic liquid crystals in vicinity to smectic-A phase in n-octyloxycyanobiphenyl and n-hexyloxycyanobiphenyl mixtures--a system exhibiting the reentrant nematic phase.
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Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, M. Smoluchowskiego 17, 60-179 Poznan, Poland. jadzyn@ifmpan.poznan.pl
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