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We report the first observations of cellular and dendritic growth at the smectic-B--smectic-A interface of the liquid crystal 4O8. Experimentally, 4O8 is seen to be an intermediate case between the solid-liquid and the nematic-isotropic interfaces studied previously. Based on this similarity, we propose a classification of interface behavior based on the latent heat of transition.
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Bechhoefer et al. (1988) studied this question.
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