Abstract
Doolittle's law relates a kinetic property such as viscosity or dielectric relaxation to the free volume. In nematogens the volume expansion is discontinuous at the nematic-isotropic transition temperature and nonlinear at . This makes a test of Doolittle's law possible.
- Received 4 February 1982
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.26.1785
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