Landau theory of the nematic-smectic a tricritical phase transition in a binary mixture of liquid crystals

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1995-01-01

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Yurtseven, Hasan Hamit

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We have developed in this study a thermodynamic model for the nematic-smectic A (NA) tricritical phase transition of a binary mixture of liquid crystals in analogy with the model for quasi fluid mixtures due to Griffiths. Using the Landau theory with a symmetrical TCP, we have predicted the critical behaviours of the nematic susceptibility, order parameter and the specific heat discontinuity in the vicinity of the TCP.

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Instrumentation, General Materials Science

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/51593

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PHASE TRANSITIONS

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https://doi.org/10.1080/01411599508200388

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H. H. Yurtseven, “Landau theory of the nematic-smectic a tricritical phase transition in a binary mixture of liquid crystals,” PHASE TRANSITIONS, pp. 75–86, 1995, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/51593.