TY - JOUR
T1 - A Mössbauer study of the Brownian motion of suspended particles in a nematic liquid crystal
T2 - The effect of anchored molecular textures
AU - Widatallah, H. M.
AU - Hsia, Y. F.
AU - Fang, N.
AU - Lee, X. M.
PY - 1996/6/10
Y1 - 1996/6/10
N2 - The Brownian motion of suspended particles in EBBA liquid crystal is studied by the Mössbauer technique. Different values are obtained for both the radius of the particles and their mean square displacement in the nematic phase and the isotropic one. This behavior is attributed to anchored molecular textures on the particles' surfaces. The texture thickness is estimated from the Mössbauer data.
AB - The Brownian motion of suspended particles in EBBA liquid crystal is studied by the Mössbauer technique. Different values are obtained for both the radius of the particles and their mean square displacement in the nematic phase and the isotropic one. This behavior is attributed to anchored molecular textures on the particles' surfaces. The texture thickness is estimated from the Mössbauer data.
KW - Brownian motion
KW - Mössbauer spectroscopy
KW - Nematic liquid crystal
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U2 - 10.1016/0375-9601(96)00209-5
DO - 10.1016/0375-9601(96)00209-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0000533191
SN - 0375-9601
VL - 215
SP - 326
EP - 330
JO - Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
IS - 5-6
ER -