Free growth of a thermotropic columnar mesophase : supersaturation effects
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2014 The free growth (at constant temperature) of a columnar hexagonal liquid crystal is described. The chosen material is the hexaoctyloxytriphenylene. Three growth regimes are observed depending upon the value of the supersaturation 0394: a petal-shape regime for 0394 0.2, a dendritic regime for 0.2 0394 0.6 and a dense branching regime for 0394 > 0.6. The first morphological transition is explained in the framework of the model of Brener et al. [6] by an effect of confinement and finite Peclet number. The second morphological transition remains unexplained for the moment. J. Phys. France 50 (1989) 2121-2138 ler AOÛT 1989, Classification Physics Abstracts 61.30 68.70
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