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Thermomechanical mechanism of the director reorientation in twisted nematic liquid crystals caused by the one-dimensional longitudinal temperature gradient is predicted and studied theoretically. The calculated director reorientations are in the range that can be measured experimentally very easily.
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Original Russian Text © J.B. Poursamad, 2009, published in Izvestiya NAN Armenii, Fizika, 2009, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 23–28.
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Poursamad, J.B. Thermomechanical reorientation in nematic liquid crystals. J. Contemp. Phys. 44, 14–18 (2009). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068337209010034
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