Investigating Orientational Order of Liquid Crystals
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Brookhaven National Laboratory • National Synchrotron Light Source • P.O. Box 5000, Upton, NY 11973 • http://www.nsls.bnl.gov/ FUNDING Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council; National Science Foundation; Petroleum Research Fund, administered by the American Chemistry Society; Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology; The University of Manchester; University of Minnesota; U.S. Department of Energy PUBLICATIONs S. Jaradat, et al., “Unexpected FieldInduced Phase Transitions Between Ferrielectric and Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystal Structures,” Phys. Rev. E, 77: 010701(2008).
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