Abstract
In lyotropic liquid crystals the director at the boundary surfaces can be oriented by an external magnetic field, with a time constant about times greater than that in the bulk. Measurements of are presented for a lyotropic sample of potassium laurate, decanol, and water in the nematic calamitic phase () in the vicinity of the nematic-isotropic transition. It is shown that decreases linearly in the phase when the temperature approaches [Oliveira, Figueiredo Neto, and Durand, Phys. Rev. A 44, 825 (1991)].
- Received 22 September 1993
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.49.629
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