Orientational melting and reorientational motion in a cubane molecular crystal: A molecular simulation study
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Detailed molecular simulations are carried out to investigate the effect of temperature on orientational order in cubane molecular crystal. Transition from an orientationally ordered to an orientionally disordered plastic crystalline phase is reported and the orientational melting is associated with an anomaly in specific heat at constant pressure (C(sub p)) and compressibility (k) and the coefficient of thermal expansion of the plastic crystalline phase is more than twice that of crystalline phase.
Publication Name: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Subject: Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
ISSN: 1520-6106
Year: 2005
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Solid-state NMR characterization and determination of the orientational order of a nematogen
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The detailed characterization of the molecular structure of a novel mesogen, DoBDPMP (4-(dodecyloxy)benzoic acid 4-[((4-(dimethylamino)phenyl)imino)methyl]phenyl ester), in solid, meso and isotropic phases, and also the determination of the orientational order of the core fragment is discussed. The dimethyamino-containing nematogen is expected to retain its mesophase even in the presence of a nonmesogenic nitro- or cyano-substituted phenyl ring containing acceptor.
Publication Name: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Subject: Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
ISSN: 1520-6106
Year: 2005
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Orientational order and rotational relaxation in the plastic crystal phase of tetrahedral molecules
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Quantitative methods are used for examining the orientational order in the plastic crystal phase of apolar tetrahedral molecules. The results have shown that relaxation is nonhomogeneous in the picosecond range, with a slight dispersion of decay times depending on the initial orientational class.
Publication Name: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Subject: Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
ISSN: 1520-6106
Year: 2008
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