Industry/University Cooperative Research Activity:  Thermal and Optical Properties of Liquid Crystals (Materials        Research)
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This is a cooperative research project whose goals are to understand            fundamental properties of liquid crystal phase transitions and to               develop techniques for measuring thermal properties, thermal                    conductivity, and polarization.  A special high resolution ac                   calorimeter, developed by this group, will be used to measure heat              capacity and thermal conductivity in the vicinity of various                    multicritical points or phase transitions.  Mixtures will be used to            vary temperature ranges of certain phases to work toward better                 understanding of the nature of the phase transitions as well as of the          microscopic structures and to test theories.
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