On the spacer and mesogenic unit QNS reorientational motion investigation in liquid crystal polyacrylate
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The incoherent quasi elastic cold neutron scattering data of the side chain dynamics of the backbone deuterated linear polymer polyacrylate of Benguigui et al. (J. Phys. II France 1 (1991) 451), have been successfully interpreted in the isotropic, smectic A and re-entrant nernatic
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