Can elemental bismuth be a liquid crystal?

Details Can elemental bismuth be a liquid crystal? Can elemental bismuth be a liquid crystal?

2010-03-28

arxiv.org/abs/1003.5369v1

Physics Letters A 374 (2010) 3982-3986

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

10 pages, no figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physleta.2010.07.067

A number of anomalies have been reported in molten Bi, including a first-order liquid-liquid transition at 1010K and ambient pressure, which is irreversible at cooling rates of several degrees per minute. An interpretation of these effects as due to long-range orientational order is suggested. Significant evidence for directionality in liquid Bi, albeit only immediately after melting, is available in experiments made circa 1930. Further experimentation is called for.

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