Viscosity Behavior at the Nematic to Smectic A Phase Transition in Freely Flowing Compounds

The paper shows that the shear viscosity at the nematic to smectic A phase transition in freely flowing n-hexyloxycy$ $anobiphenyl + n-octyloxycyanobiphenyl mixtures (a system exhibiting the reentrant nematic phase) corresponds to the Mięsowicz η$\text{}_{3}$ viscosity coefficient and its temperature behavior is analogous (but strongly enhanced) to that observed for the η$\text{}_{2}$ viscosity coefficient at the isotropic to nematic phase transition.