Pretransitional behavior above the nematic-isotropic phase transition of an auxetic trimer liquid crystal.
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)].
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Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7079, USA.
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Zhang
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Petschek
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Rosenblatt
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Liu
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