title: Pretransitional behavior above the nematic-isotropic phase transition of an auxetic trimer liquid crystal.
abstract: Static light scattering and electric field-induced Kerr measurements were performed above the nematic-isotropic phase transition of a terminal-lateral-lateral-terminal negative Poisson ratio trimer. For both measurements the inverse susceptibility was observed to be nearly linear with temperature, a result inconsistent with our previously reported Kerr data [Phys. Rev. E 58, 2041 (1998)].
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7079, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Mahajan
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Petschek
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rosenblatt
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Griffin