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Mössbauer Studies of Liquid Crystals

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The Mössbauer Effect has been used to study thermotropic liquid crystalline systems since 1969 and has progressed from studies of orientational ordering to studies of the molecular vibrational anisotropy and rotational diffusion in supercooled liquid crystals and liquid crystalline glasses. Liquid crystalline phases span the gap between the solid and isotropic liquid phases via a stepwise introduction of orientational and spatial ordering. For example, the nematic phase has only orientational order and there are a variety of smectic layered arrangements. By introducing Mössbauer probes into these liquid crystals, one has the opportunity to study molecular relaxations in the vicinity of the supercooled liquid crystal-liquid crystalline glass transition as a function of orientational and translational order in a stepwise manner. These applications of the Mossbauer technique will be discussed along with their potential use in the study of lyotropic liquid crystalline glasses, membranes and other bilayer systems whose layered arrangements are similar to those encountered in thermotropic smectic liquid crystals.

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Uhrich, D.L. (1984). Mössbauer Studies of Liquid Crystals. In: Herber, R.H. (eds) Chemical Mössbauer Spectroscopy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2431-7_10

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