Evaluation tools differential scanning calorimetry

Different experimental techniques have been used to characterize structural and phase behavior of liquid crystalline materials. Polarizing optical microscopy is one of the essential tools for the characterization of newly synthesized mesogenic materials, together with differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and x-ray investigations, while DSC provides information on phase transition temperatures and order of transitions. X-ray investigations for actual structural evaluation, i. e. determination of phase type, have to be performed on macroscopically well oriented samples, which is often time consuming and sometimes hard to realize. Therefore... 

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