Prenematic behavior of the electric-field-induced increment of the basic thermodynamic quantities of isotropic mesogenic liquids of different polarity.
Temperature dependences of the static dielectric permittivity and its derivative, obtained for isotropic mesogenic liquids composed of the molecules of different polarity in relation to the basic thermodynamic quantities (internal energy, entropy, and Helmholtz free energy), are analyzed. A role of the molecular polarity in the dielectric behavior of the liquids in the vicinity of the isotropic to nematic phase transition is discussed.
Jadzyn
Jan
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Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, M. Smoluchowskiego 17, 60-179 Poznań, Poland. jadzyn@ifmpan.poznan.pl
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