ONSAGER THEORY OF NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS DOPED WITH FERROELECTRIC NANOPARTICLES

M.R. Hakobyan

doi:10.46991/PSYU:A/2014.48.2.054

ONSAGER THEORY OF NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS DOPED WITH FERROELECTRIC NANOPARTICLES

Authors

M.R. Hakobyan Chair of Optics, YSU, Armenia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46991/PSYU:A/2014.48.2.054

Keywords:

ferroelectric nanoparticles, free energy, Onsager theory, orientational distribution function

Abstract

The Onsager virial theory for the isotropic-nematic phase transition of thin rod-like nematic molecules doped with ferroelectric nanoparticles is treated comprehensively. An expression for free energy of the system as a whole is received. By applying the Lagrange multiplier method for variation of free energy expression the orientational distribution function of nematics in the presence of nanoparticles is obtained.

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Published

2014-07-10

How to Cite

Hakobyan, M. (2014). ONSAGER THEORY OF NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS DOPED WITH FERROELECTRIC NANOPARTICLES. Proceedings of the YSU A: Physical and Mathematical Sciences, 48(2 (234), 54–59. https://doi.org/10.46991/PSYU:A/2014.48.2.054