title: Doping a mixture of two smectogenic liquid crystals with barium titanate nanoparticles.
abstract: A mixture of two smectic liquid crystals was doped with harvested ferroelectric barium titanate nanoparticles and investigated with wide- and small-angle X-ray scattering during cooling from the isotropic phase. A decrease in the isotropic to nematic and in the nematic to partially bilayer smectic-A(d) (SmA(d)) phase transition temperatures was observed accompanied by an increase of the layer spacing in the SmA(d) phase.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Paderborn, Warburger Str. 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lorenz
authors.forename: Natalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zimmermann
authors.forename: Satyendra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Dean R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Evans
authors.forename: Gary
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cook
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fernández Martínez
authors.forename: Heinz-S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Kitzerow