<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Godinho, M.H.a</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pieranski, P.b</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sotta, P.c</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hygroscopic study of hydroxypropylcellulose: Structure and strain-induced birefringence of capillary bridges</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">European Physical Journal E</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Birefringence</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Capillary bridges</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Humidity control</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hydroxypro-pylcellulose</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hygroscopic methods</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Isotropic samples</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Liquid crystals</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lyotropic liquid crystal</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Soft matter</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Strain induced birefringence</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Uniaxial deformation</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2016</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84988851130&amp;doi=10.1140%2fepje%2fi2016-16089-2&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=57a0193a5a8082ce19d78d9f99c70ec6</style></url></web-urls></urls><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">9</style></number><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Springer New York LLC</style></publisher><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">39</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Abstract.: The hygroscopic method developed previously for studies of lyotropic liquid crystals is used for the first time in experiments with millimetric capillary bridges made of a hydroxypropylcellulose/water mixture. Composition of such very small samples is controlled via humidity of the surrounding air. By a slow and well-controlled drying of initially isotropic samples, the isotropic/anisotropic phase transition is crossed and polydomain pseudo-isotropic capillary bridges are prepared. Kept in an atmosphere of constant humidity, these bridges are stretched and the strain-induced birefringence ∆n is measured as a function of the draw ratio λ. The variation of ∆n with λ is interpreted in terms of an affine uniaxial deformation of the initial pseudo-isotropic texture. © 2016, EDP Sciences, SIF, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.</style></abstract><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">cited By 0</style></notes></record></records></xml>