A mean-field model for the phase diagram of liquid crystals

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1998-01-01

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Tublek, A
Yurtseven, Hasan Hamit
Salihoglu, S

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In this study we have developed a mean-field model to obtain the phase diagram for a mixture of liquid crystals. Our mean-field model gives the phase diagram of the nematic, smectic A and smectic C phases near the NAC point. We have fitted our model to the experimentally observed data. From this fitting, we conclude that our mean-field model explains correctly the experimentally observed behavior of a mixed liquid crystalline system near the NAC point.

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Instrumentation, General Materials Science

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/58000

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PHASE TRANSITIONS

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https://doi.org/10.1080/01411599808207999

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A. Tublek, H. H. Yurtseven, and S. Salihoglu, “A mean-field model for the phase diagram of liquid crystals,” PHASE TRANSITIONS, pp. 203–214, 1998, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/58000.