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We present results of the deuteron nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) study of ordering and phase transition behavior of octylcyanobiphenyl (8CB) liquid crystal confined to a controlled-pore glass (CPG) with nontreated and silanes-treated pore surfaces. The deuteron NMR spectra allowed to determine the degree of nematic liquid crystal ordering and also provided an indirect information on the confined 8CB smectic ordering via its influence on the nematic ordering. For the smectic phase these data are supplemented with measurements of the temperature dependence of the first-order SAXS diffraction pattern. The NMR results indicate that the average nematic and smectic order parameters of 8CB in the nontreated CPG are only weakly perturbed by the confinement. The SAXS data further suggest that in confined 8CB for both nontreated and silane-treated CPG a domainlike pattern appears in accordance with the Imry-Ma theorem.
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Zidanšek, A., Lahajnar, G. & Kralj, S. Phase transitions in 8CB liquid crystal confined to a controlled-pore glass: Deuteron NMR and small angle X-ray scattering studies. Appl. Magn. Reson. 27, 311–319 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03166325
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