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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"isotropic-nematic transition"”.
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The effect of shear flow on the isotropic-nematic transition in liquid crystals
… I will discuss the effects of shear flow on the Isotropic-Nematic phase transition in liquid crystals. Shear flow has dramatic orienting effects on the rod-like constituents of nematic liquid crystals, with the general effects of (1) inducing order in the high-temperature isotropic phase, and (2) …
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The effect of shear flow on the Isotropic-Nematic transition in liquid crystals
… I will discuss the effects of shear flow on the Isotropic-Nematic phase transition in liquid crystals. Shear flow has dramatic orienting effects on the rod-like constituents of nematic liquid crystals, with the general effects of (1) inducing order in the high-temperature isotropic phase, and (2) …
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CRITICAL DYNAMICS OF LIQUID CRYSTAL ABOVE THE ISOTROPIC - NEMATIC PHASE TRANSITION
Dynamics of liquid crystals above the isotropic-nematic phase transition point is studied. The phase transition is of first-order, but nearly critical. Near the transition point the correlation length (zeta) of molecular orientational order could be comparable to the inverse of a light scattering …
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Computer simulation of rod-sphere mixtures.
… sphere concentrations. Both mixing-demixing and isotropic-nematic transition are studied using Monte Carlo techniques. Secondly, the effect of adding Lennard-Jones particles to an LC system modelled using the well established Gay-Berne potential is investigated. These rod-sphere mixtures are …
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Binary mixtures of rod-like colloids
… in colloidal binary mixtures of rigid anisotropic particles. To this end, we derive a theoretical framework including equilibrium and non-equilibrium methods. The equilibrium description is derived on the basis of microscopic density functionals in the Parsons-Lee and Ramakrishnan-Youssuf …