Critical increase of the bending fluctuations of molecules and the nematic-to-isotropic liquid phase transition
Aver'yanov E.M. , Zhuikov V.A. , Korets A.Ya. , Shabanov V.F. , Adomenas P.V.
A critical increase of bending fluctuations in the mobile molecular chains of a nematic, which induces a sudden transition to the isotropic state in a system of rigid molecular nuclei and a continuous transition in a system of impurity dye molecules, was observed.