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1.
J.-F. Berret D.C. Roux P. Lindner 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》1998,5(1):67-77
We have investigated the simple shear flow behavior of wormlike micelles using small-angle neutron scattering and mechanical
measurements. Ternary surfactant solutions made of cetylpyridinium chloride, hexanol and brine (0.2 M NaCl) and hereafter
abbreviated as CPCl-Hex were studied in the concentrated regime, . In a preliminary report (Berret et al. [#!ref16!#]), the discontinuity of slope observed in the shear stress versus shear rate curve was interpreted in terms of first-order phase transition between an isotropic state and a shear-induced
nematic state ( transition). At the transition rate, , the solution exhibits a macroscopic phase separation into viscous and fluid layers (inhomogeneous shear flow). Above a second
characteristic shear rate, the flow becomes homogeneous again, the sheared solution being nematic only. The neutron patterns
obtained in the two-state inhomogeneous region have been re-examined. Based on a consistent analysis of both orientational
and translational degrees of freedom related to the wormlike micelles, we emphasize new features for the transition. In the present paper, the shear rate variations of the relative proportions of each phase in the two-state region,
as well as the viscosity ratio between isotropic and nematic phases are derived. We demonstrate in addition that slightly
above the transition rate, the shear induced nematic phase is already strongly oriented, with an order parameter P
2
= 0.65. The orientational state is that of a nematic flow-oriented monodomain. Finally, from the locations of the neutron
scattering maxima for each isotropic and nematic contributions, we evaluate the concentrations for each phase and and derived a dynamical phase diagram of CPCl-Hex, in terms of the stress
versus
and . According to the classification by Schmitt et al. [#!ref22!#], the transition observed in CPCl-Hex micellar solutions could result from a positive flow-concentration coupling, in agreement
with the observed monotonically increasing shear stress in the two-phase region.
Received: 16 February 1998 / Revised: 18 February 1998 /
Accepted: 24 May 1998 相似文献
2.
V. Popa-Nita 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》1999,12(1):83-90
We extend the random anisotropy nematic spin model to study nematic-isotropic transitions in porous media. A complete phase
diagram is obtained. In the limit of relative low randomness the existence of a triple point is predicted. For relatively
large randomness we have found a depression in temperature at the transition, together with a first order transition which
ends at a tricritical point, beyond which the transition becomes continuous. We use this model to investigate the motion of
the nematic-isotropic interface. We assume the system to be isothermal and initially quenched into the metastable régime of the isotropic phase. Using an appropriate form of the free energy density we obtain the domain wall solutions of the time-dependent
Ginzburg-Landau equation. We find that including a random field leads to smaller velocity of the interface and to larger interface
width.
Received 12 November 1998 and Received in final form 15 March 1999 相似文献
3.
R. Kemkemer D. Kling D. Kaufmann H. Gruler 《The European physical journal. E, Soft matter》2000,1(2-3):215-225
In culture migrating and interacting amoeboid cells can form nematoid arrangements in analogy to a nematic liquid crystal
phase. A nematoid arrangement is formed if the interaction has an apolar symmetry. Different cell types like human melanocytes
(= pigment cells of the skin), human fibroblasts (= connective tissue cells), human osteoblasts (= bone cells), human adipocytes
(= fat cells) etc., form a nematoid structure. Our hypothesis is that elastic properties of these nematoid structures can
be described in analogy to that of classical nematic liquid crystals. The orientational elastic energy is derived and the
orientational defects (disclination) of nematoid arrangements are investigated. The existence of half-numbered disclinations
shows that the nematoid structure has an apolar symmetry. The density- and order parameter dependence of the orientational
elastic constants and their absolute values are estimated. From the defect structure, one finds that the splay elastic constant
is smaller than the bend elastic constant (melanocytes). The core of a disclination is either a cell free space or occupied
by non oriented cells (isotropic state), by a cell with a different symmetry, or by another cell type.
Received 3 May 1999 and Received in final form 29 September 1999 相似文献
4.
I. Jánossy 《Pramana》2003,61(2):435-445
It is suggested that liquid crystal—polymer interfaces are coupled systems, in which the components mutually influence the
orientational state of each other. The photo-orientation process at liquid crystal-polymer interfaces provides a striking
example of such a coupling. Experiments show that the anisotropic structure generated by polarised light at a polymer surface
is strongly affected by the phase of the liquid crystal covering the polymer. Photo-orientation is significantly more efficient
when the liquid crystal is in the isotropic phase than when it exhibits orientational order. The observations are interpreted
by assuming that in the smectic and nematic phases the liquid crystal stabilises to a large extent polymer chain-segments
aligned parallel to the director, while it blocks the photo-induced formation of chain-segments in the perpendicular direction.
Other situations, in which the coupling between the liquid crystal and the polymer can be important, are also discussed briefly. 相似文献
5.
Y.O. Popov A.N. Semenov 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》1998,6(2):245-256
Nematic ordering in anisotropic non-Gaussian elastomers is considered theoretically using mean field approximation. We focus on the effect of anisotropy during network
cross-linking on the system elasticity and, in particular, on the so-called soft deformation mode. As the main result, we
calculate the dependence of the elastomer free energy on the angle between the axis of “frozen” anisotropy and the nematic
director. The dependence of the isotropic-nematic transition point on the orientational field acting on the monomers during
the cross-linking process is also calculated.
Received: 5 November 1997 / Revised and Accepted: 29 June 1998 相似文献
6.
V. Fourmaux-Demange A. Brûlet F. Boué P. Davidson P. Keller J.P. Cotton 《The European physical journal. E, Soft matter》2000,1(4):301-317
We have studied the rheology and the conformation of stretched comb-like liquid-crystalline polymers. Both the influence of
the comb-like structure and the specific effect of the nematic interaction on the dynamics are investigated. For this purpose,
two isomers of a comb-like polymetacrylate polymer, of well-defined molecular weights, were synthesized: one displays a nematic
phase over a wide range of temperature, the other one has only an isotropic phase. Even with high degrees of polymerization
N, between 40 and 1000, the polymer chains studied were not entangled. The stress-strain curves during the stretching and relaxation
processes show differences between the isotropic and nematic comb-like polymers. They suggest that, in the nematic phase,
the chain dynamics is more cooperative than for a usual linear polymer. Small-angle neutron scattering has been used in order
to determine the evolution of the chain conformation after stretching, as a function of the duration of relaxation t
r. The conformation can be described with two parameters only: , the global deformation of the polymer chain, and p, the number of statistical units of locally relaxed sub-chains. For the comb-like polymer, the chain deformation is pseudo-affine:
is always smaller than (the deformation ratio of the whole sample). In the isotropic phase, has a constant value, while pincreases as tr. This latter behavior is not that expected for non-entangled chains, in which p varies as t
r
1/2 (Rouse model). In the nematic phase, decreases as a stretched exponential function of t
r, while p remains constant. The dynamics of the comb-like polymers is discussed in terms of living clusters from which junctions are
produced by interactions between side chains. The nematic interaction increases the lifetime of these junctions and, strikingly,
the relaxation is the same at all scales of the whole polymer chain.
Received 5 May 1999 and Received in final form 18 October 1999 相似文献
7.
H. Stark J. Stelzer R. Bernhard 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》1999,10(3):515-523
Recently, it was observed that water droplets suspended in a nematic liquid crystal form linear chains [Poulin et al., Science 275, 1770 (1997)]. The chaining occurs, e.g., in a large nematic drop with homeotropic boundary conditions at all the surfaces. Between each pair of water droplets a
point defect in the liquid crystalline order was found in accordance with topological constraints. This point defect causes
a repulsion between the water droplets. In our numerical investigation we limit ourselves to a chain of two droplets. For
such a complex geometry we use the method of finite elements to minimize the Frank free energy. We confirm an experimental
observation that the distance d of the point defect from the surface of a water droplet scales with the radius r of the droplet like .When the water droplets are moved apart, we find that the point defect does not stay in the middle between the droplets,
but rather forms a dipole with one of them. This confirms a theoretical model for the chaining. Analogies to a second order
phase transition are drawn. We also find the dipole when one water droplet is suspended in a bipolar nematic drop with two
boojums, i.e., surface defects at the outer boundary. Finally, we present a configuration where two droplets repel each other without a
defect between them.
Received 11 December 1998 相似文献
8.
A. Milchev J.P. Wittmer D.P. Landau 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》1999,12(2):241-251
We use an off-lattice microscopic model for solutions of equilibrium polymers (EP) in a lamellar shear flow generated by means
of a self-consistent external field between parallel hard walls. The individual conformations of the chains are found to elongate
in flow direction and shrink perpendicular to it while the average polymer length decreases with increasing shear rate. The
Molecular Weight Distribution of the chain lengths retains largely its exponential form in dense solutions whereas in dilute
solutions it changes from a power-exponential Schwartz distribution to a purely exponential one upon an increase of the shear
rate. With growing shear rate the system becomes increasingly inhomogeneous so that a characteristic variation of the total
monomer density, the diffusion coefficient, and the center-of-mass distribution of polymer chains of different contour length
with the velocity of flow is observed. At higher temperature, as the average chain length decreases significantly, the system is shown to undergo an order-disorder transition
into a state of nematic liquid crystalline order with an easy direction parallel to the hard walls. The influence of shear
flow on this state is briefly examined.
Received 22 October 1998 and Received in final form 12 April 1999 相似文献
9.
Refractive index and density measurements have been carried out on three nO.m liquid crystalline compounds, namely, 4O.2, 4O.3 and 1O.10 belonging to the N-(p-n-alkoxybenzylidene)-p-n-alkylaniline series. From the data, the orientational order parameter has been estimated using Vuks and Neugebauer local field models. Furthermore, the orientational order parameter has been calculated directly from refractive index data employing the Vuks scaling factor method, Neugebauer f(B) parameter, effective geometry parameter and a method proposed by Kuczyński et al. It is observed that order parameter values estimated from different methods agree well near the nematic–isotropic transition and diverge as the nematic phase attains equilibrium. The temperature gradient of refractive indices and the nematic crossover temperatures have also been estimated for these compounds. The results obtained are compared and discussed. 相似文献
10.
Depletion interaction in a suspension of rodlike colloids with added non-adsorbing polymer coils is theoretically studied.
We calculate an overlap volume of depletion zone between two rodlike colloids, based on the second virial approximation. We
examine nematic-isotropic phase transition (NIT) and two-phase coexistence between an isotropic and a nematic phase at low
polymer concentrations. We find that the depletion interaction is dependent on the orientational order parameter of rodlike
colloids and leads to a decrease in the NIT concentration on the addition of polymer. The coexistence curves have a leaning-chimney
shape and are shifted to lower rod concentrations on increasing the polymer concentration.
Received 23 May 2001 and Received in final form 18 July 2001 相似文献
11.
Within the framework of Landau-de-Gennes formulation, we analyse the effect of pressure on electric-field-induced phase transitions
in a liquid crystal which shows spontaneously an isotropic-smectic A transition. Inferring from the experimental pressure
dependences on the layer spacing in smectic A phase, as well as the nematic-smectic A metastable temperature T*AN, we incorporated the pressure dependence in the free energy through (the surface energy term) and the coupling between the
quadrupolar nematic ordering Qij and the smectic order parameter ψ. From the S-T phase diagram, we found that the stability of field-induced nematic phase increases with pressure, whereas the discontinuity
of the transition decreases. Also, the region where paranematic phase transits directly to smectic A phase increases with
pressure. 相似文献
12.
E. Freyssingeas D. Antelmi P. Kékicheff P. Richetti A.-M. Bellocq 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》1999,9(1):123-136
The compressibility modulus of a lamellar phase containing a neutral polymer guest molecule was measured directly using a
surface force apparatus. The system studied consisted of sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS), pentanol, water and polyethylene glycol
(PEG) . The lamellar phase was induced from a micellar phase in situ via a confinement induced isotropic to lamellar phase transition. This avoided problems resulting from the viscosity and turbidity
normally characteristic of these lamellar phase samples. Increasing the amount of PEG resulted in a marked decrease in the
layer compressibility modulus indicating a decrease in the repulsive forces between the lamellae. The origin of such a phenomenon is discussed in terms
of different mechanisms including depletion interactions, bridging interactions and modification of the electrostatic interaction
between the lamellae by the polymer.
Received 2 February 1998 相似文献
13.
ZHANGJun TAORui-Bao 《理论物理通讯》2002,37(2):253-256
Phase transition between nematic and isotropic liquid crystal is a very weak first order phase transition.We avoid to use the normal Landau-de Gennes‘s free energy that reduces a strong first order transition,and set up a data base of free energy calculated by means of Tao-Sheng-Lin‘s extended molecular field theory that can explain the experiments of the equilibrium properties of nematic liquid crystal very well.Then we use the free energy method of lattice Boltzmann developed by Oxford group to study the phase decomposition,pattern formation in the flow of the liquid crystal near transition temperature. 相似文献
14.
The Frank elasticity constants which describe splay (K
1), twist (K
2), and bend (K
3) distortion modes are investigated for 4-n-pentyl-4'-cyanobiphenyl (5CB) in the nematic liquid crystal. The calculations
rest on statistical-mechanical approaches where the absolute values of K
i
(i=1,2,3) are dependent on the direct correlation function (DCF) of the corresponding nematic state. The DCF was determined
using the pair correlation function by solving the Ornstein-Zernike equation. The pair correlation function, in turn, was
obtained from molecular dynamics (MD) trajectory. Three different approaches for calculations of the elasticity constants
were employed based on different level of approximation about the orientational order and molecular correlations. The best
agreement with experimental values of elasticity constants was obtained in a model where the full orientational distribution
function was used. In addition we have investigated the approximation about spherical distribution of the intermolecular vectors
in the nematic phase, often used in derivation of various mean-field theories and employed here for the construction of the
DCF. We found that this assumption is not strictly valid, in particular a strong deviation from the isotropic distribution
is observed for short intermolecular distances.
Received 22 March 2000 and Received in final form 9 June 2000 相似文献
15.
We report the experimental high electric field phase diagram of a nematic
liquid crystal which exhibits a large negative dielectric
anisotropy. We measure simultaneously
the birefringence (Δn) and the dielectric constant
(epsilon⊥) at various applied fields as
functions of the
local temperature of an aligned sample. We also measure the higher harmonics of
the electrical response of the
medium. The following experimental results are noted: (i) enhancement
of orientational order parameter
S in the nematic phase due to both
the Kerr effect and quenching of director fluctuations; (ii) enhancement in the paranematic to
nematic transition temperature (TPN) with field; (iii) divergence of the order parameter
susceptibility beyond the tricritical point as measured
by third harmonic electrical signal; (iv) a small second harmonic
electrical signal which also diverges
near TPN, indicating the presence of
polarised domains. Our measurements show that ΔTPN(= TPN(E)-TNI(0))
varies linearly with |E|
whereas the Landau de Gennes theory predicts a dependence on E2. It is argued that the quenching of director fluctuations by the field makes the dominant contribution to all the observations,
including the thermodynamics of the transition. 相似文献
16.
S. Lecommandoux F. Hardouin A.J. Dianoux 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》1998,5(1):79-85
From quasi-elastic neutron scattering experiments performed in glassy, nematic and isotropic phases, the dynamics of oriented
samples of strong anisotropic side-on fixed liquid crystal polymers have been analysed. Using the selective deuteration method,
we are able to attribute motions to specific parts of the molecule in the parallel and perpendicular orientations. The motions
of the whole macromolecule decrease as soon as the temperature decreases below the isotropic-nematic transition. Nevertheless,
the motions of the polymer backbone, compared to the whole polymer dynamics, are systematically reduced, even in the isotropic
phase. Moreover, an anisotropy of the motions is revealed, with a reduction in the direction parallel to the orientation.
An harmonic character of the vibrational processes is also evidenced. We conclude that the anisotropy of the dynamic corroborates
the anisotropy of conformation of the macromolecule (so-called jacketed structure).
Received: 29 October 1997 / Revised: 22 January 1998/
Accepted: 11 May 1998 相似文献
17.
Gunyakov VA Parshin AM Shabanov VF 《The European physical journal. E, Soft matter》2006,20(4):467-473
Specific features of the anisotropic interaction between a nematic mixture and a polar surface of a ferroelectric triglycine
sulfate crystal have been studied over a wide temperature range including the substrate's Curie point Tc. The mixture was composed of two nematic liquid crystals, 60% of p-methoxybenzylidene-p-n-butylaniline (MBBA) and 40% of p-ethoxybenzylidene-p-n-butylaniline (EBBA), and doped with a small amount of a dichroic dye. The temperature dependence of the polarized components
of optical density Dj of the dye absorption band for the nematic and isotropic phases of the MBBA+EBBA mixture has been obtained using polarization
optic techniques. The temperature-induced structural changes in the nematic layer near Tc were found to be related to the changes in the orientational part of the tensor order parameter Qik. The experimental data have been interpreted using the model, in which the dispersive van der Waals forces of the substrate
stabilize the planar orientation of the nematic in the bulk competing with the short-range anchoring forces in the vicinity
of Tc. At the same time, the anisotropic part of the surface energy has two terms with the orthogonal easy axes. The nature of
the surface electric field and its effect on the director alignment at the interface have been clarified. Taking into account
the known relation between anchoring strength and the nematic order parameter, the effective anchoring energy weff for the studied system has been determined as a function of temperature. 相似文献
18.
We study isotropic-isotropic and isotropic-nematic phase transitions of fluid mixtures containing hard spherocylinders (HSC)
and added non-adsorbing ideal polymer chains using scaled particle theory (SPT). First, we investigate isotropic-nematic (I -N phase coexistence using SPT in the absence of polymer. We compare the results obtained using a Gaussian form of the orientational
distribution function (ODF) to minimize the free energy versus minimizing numerically. We find that formal numerical minimization gives results that are much closer to computer simulation
results. In order to describe mixtures of HSC plus ideal chains we studied the depletion of ideal chains around a HSC. We
analyze the density profiles of ideal chains near a hard cylinder and find the depletion thickness δ is a function of the
ratio of the polymer's radius of gyration Rg and the cylinder radius Rc. Our results are compared with a common approximation in which the depletion thickness is taken equal to the radius of gyration
of the polymer chain. We incorporate the correct depletion thickness into SPT and find that for R
g/R
c < 1.56 using ideal chains gives phase transitions at smaller polymer concentrations, whereas for R
g/R
c > 1.56 , which is a common experimental situation, the phase transitions are found at larger polymer concentrations with
respect to δ = R
g . The differences are significant, especially for R
g ≫ R
c , so we can conclude it is essential to take into account the properties of ideal polymer chains and the resulting depletion
near a cylinder. Finally, we present phase diagrams for rod-polymer mixtures which could be realized under experimental conditions. 相似文献
19.
E. M. Aver’yanov 《Physics of the Solid State》2004,46(8):1554-1559
The orientational order parameter S of molecules in high-temperature discotic nematic liquid-crystal phases of triphenylene derivatives is investigated as a function of the length of side flexible molecular chains at different temperatures. It is established that the orientational order parameters S in the range of the transition from the nematic phase to the isotropic liquid phase (the N D -I transition) are smaller than those predicted from the molecular-statistical theory and computer simulation. It is shown that the N D -I transition is close to both the isolated Landau point and the tricritical point (regardless of the chemical structure of the molecules and the anisotropy of dispersion intermolecular interactions). Consistent explanations are offered for a number of experimental findings, such as the anomalously small changes in the enthalpy and entropy upon the N D -I transition (as compared to those revealed upon the N-I transition in calamitic nematic liquid crystals), the anomalously strong response of the isotropic phase of discotic nematic liquid crystals to external fields (thermodynamically conjugate to the order parameter S) and the long relaxation times of this response, and the formation of cybotactic discotic molecular clusters in the isotropic phase in the vicinity of the N D -I transition. 相似文献
20.
The dependence of the coupling of orientational and translational order parameters on the nematic-smectic A tricritical point (TCP), observed through birefringence experiments in the pure compounds and in the binary mixtures in the homologous series of N(p-n-alkyloxybenzylidene)p-n-alkylanilines, results in a mean field tricritical exponent. The McMillan parameter, M = T NA/T NI (where T NA and T NI are the smectic A—nematic (AN) and the nematic—isotropic (NI) phase transition temperatures respectively), is used as an effective and relevant field variable in analysing the TCP. The observed linear dependence of the jump in the orientational order parameter with new density variables in the tricritical region is found to be consistent with the results obtained from both the Landau mean field and the decoupled mean field models. The width of the mean field tricritical region is discussed in terms of the McMillan parameter. Further, the McMillan parameter is observed to be characteristic of chemical composition at the NA tricritical point. 相似文献