Посилання:Nano-colloids of Sn2P2S6 in Nematic Liquid Crystal Pentyl-cianobiphenile / O. Kurochkin, H. Atkuri, O. Buchnev, A. Glushchenko, O. Grabar, R. Karapinar, V. Reshetnyak, J. West, Yu. Reznikov // Condensed Matter Physics. — 2010. — Т. 13, № 3. — С. 33701:1-9. — Бібліогр.: 37 назв. — англ.
Підтримка:The authors are very grateful to Christophe Blank, Lena Lopatina, Maurizo Nobili, Tim Sluckin and Jonathan Selinger for useful discussions and advice. The research described in this paper was partially supported by the grants "Composite liquid crystal and polymer materials for information technologies" and "Self-organization and structuring, physical properties of anisotropic system based on liquid crystals matrix" of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, by the NATO Collaborative Linkage Grant "Colloids of ferroelectric nano-particles in nematic and cholesteric liquid crystals", a grant ECO-NET 2008 no. 18843TM, the Royal Society joint project "Nanoengineering of liquid crystals for strong photorefraction response", a joint grant of the Scientific, and Technical Research Council of Turkey and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine "Investigation of Electro-optical Properties of Nano-particles in Liquid Crystals", and Research Corporation Cottrell College Science Award no. CC6945.
It has been shown experimentally that the ferroelectric nano-particles, in common with other molecular additives, shift the clearing temperature, Tc, extending or reducing the two-phase coexistent region and changing the average order parameter of the single-component nematics. An increase of up to 11°C or a smaller decrease of as much as 3°C of Tc, and corresponding changes of the order parameter were observed. In all cases the order parameter of the colloid followed the universal temperature behaviour, which is a characteristic of LCs with molecular additives.