Search Results - "Finotello, D."
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Photoisomerization-controlled phase segregation in a submicron confined azonematic liquid crystal
Published in Physical review letters (22-06-2012)“…Deuteron nuclear magnetic resonance is used to study the phase segregation behavior of photoisomerizable liquid crystal diheptylazobenzene (7AB) confined into…”
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Adsorption-induced anchoring transition in cylindrically confined liquid-crystal hydrophobic aerosil dispersions
Published in Europhysics letters (01-01-2005)“…An adsorption-induced anchoring transition was found by confining liquid-crystal hydrophobic aerosil dispersions to cylindrical pores. The aerosil effects on…”
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Critical behaviour in liquid-crystalline phase transitions: a comparative study of 9OCB in bulk and Anopore membranes
Published in Liquid crystals (01-06-2010)“…As a humble contribution to this special commemorative issue to Professor Alfred Saupe, we present an experimental study on the critical behaviour of the…”
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Randomly constrained orientational order in porous glass
Published in Physical review letters (18-10-1993)Get full text
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Anchoring and structural transitions as a function of molecular length in confined liquid crystals
Published in The European physical journal. E, Soft matter and biological physics (01-02-2005)“…Using deuteron nuclear magnetic resonance to study liquid crystals confined to cylindrical pores, an anchoring transition has been found. The transition…”
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Surface ordering transitions at a liquid crystal-solid interface above the isotropic smectic-A transition
Published in Physical review letters (10-01-2003)“…The degree of orientational order induced by confining cylindrical surfaces is monitored via deuteron nuclear magnetic resonance linesplitting and linewidth…”
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Sharp heat-capacity signature at the superfluid transition of helium films in porous glasses
Published in Physical review letters (24-10-1988)Get full text
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Ordering and self-diffusion in the first molecular layer at a liquid-crystal-polymer interface
Published in Physical review letters (11-02-1991)Get full text
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Critical behavior of thermal parameters at the smectic-A-hexatic-B and smectic-A-smectic-C phase transitions in liquid crystals
Published in Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics (01-11-2003)“…High temperature resolution measurements of thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity, and specific heat, with simultaneous polarized light visual inspection…”
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Aerosil dispersed in a liquid crystal: magnetic order and random silica disorder
Published in Physical review letters (29-01-2001)“…Dispersions of silica spheres (aerosil) in octylcyanobiphenyl (8CB) liquid crystal were investigated with deuteron NMR. For the lowest silica density…”
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Universality of the Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition in He 4 Films as a Function of Thickness
Published in Physical review letters (01-11-1985)Get full text
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Chain segment order in ultrathin polymer films: a deuterium NMR study
Published in Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics (01-03-2002)“…The orientational order of monomerically thin films of polydimethylsiloxane melt deposited on the surfaces of cylindrical pores is investigated in this paper…”
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Specific heat of thin helium films in a cylindrical geometry
Published in Journal of low temperature physics (01-11-1992)Get full text
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Critical Behavior of the Thermal Conductance of He 3 - He 4 Mixture Films at the Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition
Published in Physical review letters (18-08-1986)Get full text
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Nematic ordering in highly restrictive Vycor glass
Published in Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics (01-03-1996)Get full text
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Heat capacity and resistivity measurements of the icosahedral phase of Al6CuLi3
Published in Japanese journal of applied physics (1987)Get full text
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Deuteron NMR study of monolayer thick films of nematogenic molecules
Published in Physical review letters (22-05-2000)“…We present a deuteron NMR study of molecular thickness films of a nematogenic material in cylindrical pores. Compared to liquid crystal in bulk or completely…”
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Calorimetric study of phase transitions in confined liquid crystals
Published in Physical review letters (05-10-1992)Get full text
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High-precision heat-capacity study of phase transitions in a lyotropic liquid crystal
Published in Physical review. A, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics (15-06-1992)Get full text
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