The study examined the chemical structure of azo-based liquid crystalline compounds that
were altered to form a branch of cyclotriphosphazene. Moreover, the research explored the …

Results of studies of the static and dynamic dielectric properties in rod-like 4-n-octyloxy-4'-
cyanobiphenyl (8OCB) with isotropic (I)–nematic (N)–smectic A (SmA)–crystal (Cr) …

In this article we present a new all-optical method to measure elastic constants connected
with twist and bend deformations. The method is based on the optical Freedericksz …

A series of experiments [C. Poulard and AM Cazabat,“Spontaneous spreading of nematic
liquid crystals,” Langmuir 21, 6270 (2005)] on spreading droplets of nematic liquid crystal …

Since a rigorous microscopic treatment of a nematic fluid system based on a pairwise
interaction potential is immensely complex, we had introduced a simple mean field potential …

We study the behaviour of cholesteric fingers of the first and second types (CF1 and CF2,
respectively) which form in cholesteric samples treated for homeotropic anchoring when …

Experiments on the mixture of liquid crystals and nonmesogenic impurities showed the
significant role of nonmesogenic impurities on the nematic–smectic-A phase transition …

In this work the nature and peculiarities of the inversion walls and singular points, which can
spontaneously arise or can be stimulated in the homeotropic and planar oriented textures of …

Temperature variation of the splay elastic modulus (K 11) and rotational viscosity (1 γ 1)
have been measured throughout the entire nematic (N phase of a binary liquid crystal …

We investigated the temperature dependence of the splay elastic constant (K 11) and
rotational viscosity (γ 1) of a binary liquid crystal system comprising 5-trans-n-butyl-2-(4 …