Signatures of glass transition in partially ordered phases |
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Authors: | Małgorzata Jasiurkowska-Delaporte Ewa Juszyńska Łukasz Kolek Jan Krawczyk Natalia Osiecka |
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Institution: | Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland |
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Abstract: | Features of glass transition in liquid crystalline nematic and smectic E, B and IA phases of selected materials observed by means of the polarising microscopy and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) are reported. Evolution of cracking in the glass and a coincidence of its disappearance temperature with the glass transition temperature (Tg) on heating is shown and discussed in the context of processes that occur in the glass. The shape of temperature dependencies of absorption bands is shown as the signature of the glass transition. |
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Keywords: | glass transition liquid crystals polarising microscopy IR spectroscopy |
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