Erol Akpınar

Effect of alkyl chain length of alcohols on nematic uniaxial-to-biaxial phase transitions in a potassium laurate/alcohol/K₂SO₄/water lyotropic mixture

Erol Akpınar, Dennys Reis, A. M. Figueiredo Neto · Liquid Crystals · 2012 · 51 citations · Full text

Molecular Solid, Engineering, Phase Equilibrium +13

Effect of Alkyl Chain Length of Alcohols on Cholesteric Uniaxial to Cholesteric Biaxial Phase Transitions in a Potassium Laurate/Alcohol/Potassium Sulfate/Water/Brucine Lyotropic Mixture: Evidence of a First-Order Phase Transition

Dennys Reis, Erol Akpınar, A. M. Figueiredo Neto · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B · 2012 · 22 citations · Full text

Materials Science, Engineering, Crystal Material +14

Role of kosmotrope-chaotrope interactions at micelle surfaces on the stabilization of lyotropic nematic phases

Erol Akpınar, Meric Turkmen, Cihan Canioz et al. · The European Physical Journal E · 2016 · 20 citations

Interfacial Phenomenon, Soft Matter, Micelle +6

Effect of the surfactant head-group size dependence of the dye-surfactant interactions on the lyotropic uniaxial to biaxial nematic phase transitions

Erol Akpınar, Nazlı Uygur, Öznur Demir‐Ordu et al. · Journal of Molecular Liquids · 2021 · 19 citations

Engineering, Self-assembly, Surfactants +7

Anomalous Behavior in the Crossover between the Negative and Positive Biaxial Nematic Mesophases in a Lyotropic Liquid Crystal

Erol Akpınar, Dennys Reis, A. M. Figueiredo Neto · ChemPhysChem · 2014 · 17 citations

Crystal Structure, Optical Materials, Engineering +18