Influence of non-mesogenic impurities on a nematic to isotropic phase transition
作者:
PRABIRK. MUKHERJEE,
期刊:
Liquid Crystals
(Taylor Available online 1997)
卷期:
Volume 22,
issue 3
页码: 239-243
ISSN:0267-8292
年代: 1997
DOI:10.1080/026782997209289
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Non-mesomorphic solutes depress the normal nematic-isotropic transition temperature in liquid crystals. When non-mesomorphic solutes are added to a nematic liquid crystal, the nematic-isotropic transition temperature is depressed and a two phase region is formed due to the presence of impurities of the solutes. The present paper explains the formation of this two phase region by the Landau-de Gennes phenomenological theory, which agrees fairly well with the experimental observations. We also note that this two phase region indicates the tricritical behaviour of the nematic-isotropic phase transition and the phase diagram near the tricritical point is also obtained.
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