Crystallisation of nematic liquid crystal mixtures |
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| Authors: | Kotaro Araya Koichi Igeta Masato Shimura |
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| Institution: | 1. Materials Research Laboratory , Hitachi Ltd., 7-1-1, Omika, Hitachi, 319-1292, Japan korato.araya.jg@hitachi.com;3. Hitachi Displays Ltd. , 3300, Hayano, Mobara, 297-8622, Japan |
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| Abstract: | In this paper, we propose a method to accelerate the crystallisation of nematic liquid crystal mixtures based on crystallisation theory. This method is to hold a nematic liquid crystal sample at a temperature suitable for crystal growth after aging it at a temperature suitable for nucleation. After we specified these temperatures of a nematic liquid crystal mixture using differential scanning calorimetry, we demonstrate that the two-temperature aging method is effective for the crystallisation of other nematic liquid crystal mixtures in which the crystal-liquid crystal transition temperature has so far been undetectable. |
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| Keywords: | crystallisation nucleation crystal growth nematic liquid crystal glass transition |
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