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VOLUME 40 (1984) | ISSUE 6 | PAGE 242
Division of drops of a liquid crystal in the case of a cholesteric-smectic-A phase transition
The spontaneous division of liquid-crystal drops, suspended freely in an isotropic matrix has been detected following a cholesteric-smectic-^ phase transition, caused by an anomalous increase of the surface area of the drops in the pretransitional region. It is suggested that the surface energy of the cholesteric-smectic-Λ interface can be negative.