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The propagation velocity and absorption coefficient of ultrasound in the range of 0.6–150 MHz in a series of liquid crystal emulsions prepared on the basis of thermotropic liquid crystals and isotropic liquids were studied. The dispersity parameters of emulsions were controlled by polarization microscopy and dynamic light scattering. Features of the temperature dependences of the acoustic parameters of emulsions due to the structural transformations and nematic-isotropic liquid transition in disperse and dispersion phases of liquid crystal emulsions were established.
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Original Russian Text © G.I. Maksimochkin, S.V. Pasechnik, A.G. Maksimochkin, 2011, published in Akusticheskii Zhurnal, 2011, Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 272–278.
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Maksimochkin, G.I., Pasechnik, S.V. & Maksimochkin, A.G. Ultrasonic studies of structural transformations and phase transitions in liquid crystal emulsions. Acoust. Phys. 57, 264–270 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063771011020126
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