Phase transitions in suspensions of needle-like particles in liquid crystals

A.Yu. Zubarev and L.Yu. Iskakova

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1996, vol. 232, issue 1, 109-118

Abstract: The thermodynamical properties of suspensions of rigid stretched particles in liquid crystal solvent are studied with the help of modification of Mc Millan and Maier-Saupe theories. We have shown that the presence of particles increases the temperatures of phase transitions isotropic medium-nematic and nematic-smectic A in a solvent as well. The indirect interaction between particles through nematic solvent effectively acts as an attraction. This attraction may induce their condensation and phase transition of type “gas-liquid” in the system of particles.

Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(96)00136-7

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