Cooperative behavior of molecular motions giving rise to two glass transitions in the same supercooled mesophase of a smectogenic liquid crystal dimer.

@article{Lpez2018CooperativeBO,
  title={Cooperative behavior of molecular motions giving rise to two glass transitions in the same supercooled mesophase of a smectogenic liquid crystal dimer.},
  author={David O. L{\'o}pez and Josep Salud and Mar{\'i}a Rosario de la Fuente and Nerea Sebasti{\'a}n and Sergio Diez-Berart},
  journal={Physical review. E},
  year={2018},
  volume={97 1-1},
  pages={
          012704
        }
}
In the present work, a detailed analysis of the glassy behavior and the relaxation dynamics of the liquid crystal dimer α-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4'-yloxy)-ω-(1-pyrenimine-benzylidene-4'-oxy) heptane (CBO7O.Py) throughout both nematic and smectic-A mesophases by means of broadband dielectric spectroscopy has been performed. CBO7O.Py shows three different dielectric relaxation modes and two glass transition (T_{g}) temperatures: The higher T_{g} is due to the freezing of the molecular motions… 
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