On the anisotropy of nuclear spin relaxation in a nematic liquid crystal

✍ Scribed by R.Y. Dong

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1971
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 232 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(71)85138-2

✦ Synopsis

In the nematic liquid crystal p-mcthoxybenzilidenc-P'-cyanoanIiine (MBC), the angular variation of tlie spin-lattice relaxation time Tl is explzined by collective orientational order fluctuations and tr'ans-1ntiom.l diffusion. The tr'uslationai diffusion relaxation rate. plus the frequency-independent relaxa-, tion rata from the collective order fluctuations, is found to bz 1.3 set-I at llO°C.