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Phase transitions

Phase transitions in molecular crystals of dicarboxylic acids

V. M. Egorov, V. A. Marikhin, L. P. Myasnikova

Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg

Abstract: A comparative analysis of phase transitions in molecular crystals of saturated dicarboxylic acids with $\{$COOH(CH$_2$)$n$COOH$\}$ chains of different lengths has been performed by differential scanning calorimetry, which revealed a number of new effects related with specific features of the phase transitions. A quantitative analysis of temperature dependence of the heat capacity has been carried out in the context of the theory of smeared ($\Lambda$-shaped) first-order phase transitions.

Received: 11.10.2012

 English version: Physics of the Solid State, 2013, 55:5, 1057–1062

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