Abstract
From the thermodynamical, optical texture and dielectric studies of the binary mixtures of 3β-chloro-5-cholestene (ChCl) and 4-n-decyloxybenzoic acid (DOBA), the phase diagram has been drawn. It has been observed that low concentrations of ChCl (1 to 7 mol%) in DOBA induce various types of twisted grain boundary (TGB) submesophases, whereas higher concentrations induce a smectic A (SmA) mesophase. Various optical textures of the TGB phases under different conditions of molecular anchoring have been observed. Weak transitions related with TGB phases have been detected from the temperature dependence of dielectric permittivity. The observed phase diagram of ChCl-DOBA binary system is in complete conformity with the theoretically predicted mean-field phase diagram derived by Renn within the framework of the chiral Chen-Lubenski model
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