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Spin probe EPR spectroscopy is used to detect an orientational transition in the smectic mesophase in 4-n-octyl-4'-cyanobiphenyl (8CB) liquid crystal under the action of an intense magnetic field (5.87 T).
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Original Russian Text © A.P. Vorotnikov, 2015, published in Khimicheskaya Fizika, 2015, Vol. 34, No. 11, pp. 16–17.
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Vorotnikov, A.P. An EPR study of the orientational transition in smectic liquid crystals in a magnetic field. Russ. J. Phys. Chem. B 9, 866–868 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1990793115050139
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