%0 Journal Article
%T STUDY OF STRUCTURAL PATTERNS EXHIBITED BY A BINARY MIXTURE OF SMECTIC AND CHOLESTERYL COMPOUNDS
%A GOVINDAIAH T.N.
%A SREEPAD H.R. AND NAGAPPA
%J International Journal of Machine Intelligence
%D 2011
%I Bioinfo Publications
%X The binary mixture of Cholesteryl ethyl corbonate (CEC) and Terephthal-bis-p-n-Tetradecylaniline (TB14A) exhibits a twisted grain boundary (TGB) phase and smectic polymorphic phases. The mixture exhibits TGB-A and TGB-C phases in different concentrations and at different temperatures. Mixtures with higher concentrations of TB14A exhibit I ¨C Ch - TGB-A - TGB-C - Sm A - Sm I - Sm F phases sequentially when the specimen is cooled from its isotropic melt. The existence of different TGB phases and polymorphic smectic phases are confirmed by DSC and optical microscopic studies.
%K Optical textures
%K Renn and Lubbensky model
%K Smectic and Cholesteric mixture
%K TGB phase
%U http://www.bioinfo.in/uploadfiles/13252345393_3_6_IJMI.pdf