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Pattern formation during mesophase growth in a homologous series Tóth-Katona, T. Börzsönyi, T. Váradi, Z. Szabon, J. Buka, Agnes González Cinca, Ricard Ramírez Piscina, Laureano Casademunt i Viader, Jaume Hernández Machado, Aurora Cristal·lografia Sòlids Líquids Equacions d'estat Transformacions de fase (Física estadística) Interfícies (Ciències físiques) Ciència dels materials Crystallography Solids Liquids Equations of state Phase transformations (Statistical physics) Interfaces (Physical sciences) Materials science Remarkable differences in the shape of the nematic-smectic-B interface in a quasi-two-dimensional geometry have been experimentally observed in three liquid crystals of very similar molecular structure, i.e., neighboring members of a homologous series. In the thermal equilibrium of the two mesophases a faceted rectanglelike shape was observed with considerably different shape anisotropies for the three homologs. Various morphologies such as dendritic, dendriticlike, and faceted shapes of the rapidly growing smectic-B germ were also observed for the three substances. Experimental results were compared with computer simulations based on the phase field model. The pattern forming behavior of a binary mixture of two homologs was also studied. 2011-07-07T12:51:24Z 2011-07-07T12:51:24Z 1996 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Reproducció del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.54.1574 Physical Review E, 1996, vol. 54, núm. 2, p. 1574-1583 http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.54.1574 (c) The American Physical Society, 1996 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess The American Physical Society Articles publicats en revistes (Física Quàntica i Astrofísica)