Micellar fluctuations in a calamitic nematic phase of a lyotropic liquid crystal studied by photon correlation
作者:
M.B. Lacerda Santos,
W.B. Ferreira,
M.A. Amato,
期刊:
Liquid Crystals
(Taylor Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 16,
issue 2
页码: 287-298
ISSN:0267-8292
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1080/02678299408029153
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Using a Rayleigh scattering light beating technique, we have made new measurements on the slow polarized fluctuations, previously identified as being of micellar origin, for a lyotropic system consisting of K-laurate, decanol, D2O and presenting only the uniaxial calamitic nematic (Nc) phase (from among the three known nematic types: uniaxial disk-like (ND), calamitic (Nc) and biaxial (NB) phases). An elaborated analysis of these data is made in order to clarify the relationship between the light scattering signals coming from the micellar fluctuations and those from (classical) orientational fluctuations. The main conclusions of this analysis are that the micellar mode is independent of the temperature and wave-vector, and that its relaxation frequency is substantially lower than that found previously for the same lyotropic components, but presenting the biaxial nematic phase. Finally, some considerations are made of the possible relationships between the micellar fluctuations and the structural properties of lyotropic nematics.
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