Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 247801 (2004) [4 pages]

New Hexatic Liquid Phase Observed in Lyotropic Thin Films

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Chih-Yu Chao^1,*, Ming-Tsong Hsu¹, Wen-Jiunn Hsieh¹, John T. Ho², and Ivan J. B. Lin³
¹Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan, Republic of China
²Department of Physics, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14260, USA
³Department of Chemistry, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien 97441, Taiwan, Republic of China

Received 18 August 2004; published 6 December 2004

An intermediate surface hexatic phase between the liquid and the crystalline phases has been found for the first time in a lyotropic lamellar liquid-crystal system. This phase is highly unusual in that it has long-range sixfold bond-orientational order but liquidlike nearest-neighbor positional correlations, and could represent a significant departure from our current understanding of defect-mediated melting in two dimensions.

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.247801

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.247801

PACS:

61.30.Eb, 64.70.Md

^*To whom all correspondence should be addressed.

Electronic address: cychao@ntu.edu.tw

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 247801 (2004) [4 pages]

New Hexatic Liquid Phase Observed in Lyotropic Thin Films