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Experiments on the mixture of liquid crystals and nonmesogenic impurities showed the significant role of nonmesogenic impurities on the nematic–smectic-A phase transition. Using both Flory–Huggins theory of isotropic mixing and Landau–de Gennes theory, we present a phenomenological theory that discusses the role of such impurities on the nematic–smectic-A phase transition in a mixture of smectic liquid crystal and nonmesogenic impurities. We discuss the impact of nonmesogenic impurities on the order parameters, Frank elastic constants (splay and bend) and transition temperature of the nematic–smectic-A phase transition. Our theoretical results show that there exists a tricritical point for which the second-order nematic–smectic-A phase transition becomes first order at a tricritical point by increasing the concentration of nonmesogenic solute. We find a remarkable agreement between theoretical and experimental results. 相似文献
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George Cordoyiannis Sašo Gyergyek Brigita Rožič Samo Kralj Zdravko Kutnjak George Nounesis 《Liquid crystals》2016,43(3):314-319
We report on wide-angle X-ray scattering measurements along the smectic-A to chiral ferroelectric smectic-C* phase transition of the liquid crystal SCE9 and its mixture with maghemite magnetic nanoparticles of typical dimension 20 nm. The temperature profiles of the tilt angle are fitted by an extended mean-field model. Neither pre-transitional order effects nor variations in the SmA layer thickness are observed, indicating a rather negligible influence of these nanoparticles upon the molecular orientation at the smectic-A to smectic-C* phase transition of SCE9. These results are very different from what was observed for smaller CdSe nanoparticles (3.5 nm) where both a dilation of the smectic layers in the SmA phase and a crossover behaviour for the smectic-A to smectic-C* transition away from tricriticality have been observed for analogous concentrations. 相似文献
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The first-order transition from the isotropic (I) to smectic-A (Sm?A) phase in the liquid crystal 4-cyano-4(')-decylbiphenyl (10CB) doped with the polar solvent acetone (ace) has been studied as a function of solvent concentration by high-resolution ac-calorimetry. Heating and cooling scans were performed for miscible 10CB+ace samples having acetone mole fractions from x(ace)=0.05 (1 wt?%) to 0.36 (10%) over a wide temperature range from 310 to 327 K. Two distinct first-order phase transition features are observed in the mixture whereas there is only one transition (I-Sm?A) in the pure 10CB for that particular temperature range. Both calorimetric features reproduce on repeated heating and cooling scans and evolve with increasing x(ace) with the high-temperature feature relatively stable in temperature but reduced in size while the low-temperature feature shifts dramatically to lower temperature and exhibits increased dispersion. The coexistence region increases for the low-temperature feature but remains fairly constant for the high-temperature feature as a function of x(ace). Polarizing optical microscopy supports the identification of a smectic phase below the high-temperature heat capacity signature indicating that the low-temperature feature represents an injected smectic-smectic phase transition. These effects may be the consequence of screening the intermolecular potential of the liquid crystals by the solvent that stabilizes a weak smectic phase intermediate of the isotropic and pure smectic-A. 相似文献
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Mukherjee PK 《The Journal of chemical physics》2012,136(14):144902
A phenomenological model is developed to describe the isotropic-smectic-C phase transition in liquid-crystalline side-chain elastomers. We analyze the influence of external mechanical stress on the isotropic-smectic-C phase transition. While this phase transition is first order in low-molecular-weight materials, we show here that the order of this transition does not change in liquid-crystalline elastomers. The temperature dependence of the heat capacity and the nonlinear dielectric effect in the isotropic phase above the isotropic-smectic-C phase transition in liquid crystalline elastomers are calculated. The theoretical results are found to be in good agreement with experiment. 相似文献
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Mukherjee PK 《The Journal of chemical physics》2011,135(13):134505
A phenomenological theory is presented, which describes the tricritical behavior of the R(I)-R(V) rotator phase transition in the mixture of alkanes with nanoparticles. The influence of the nanoparticles on the R(I)-R(V) transition in alkanes is discussed by varying the coupling between the order parameters of the rotator phases and nanoparticle. When nanoparticle solutes are added to pure alkanes, the R(I)-R(V) transition temperature is increased. It was observed from the theoretical calculations that for a particular value of the concentration of the nanoparticles, the first order R(I)-R(V) transition becomes second order at a tricritical point. Calculations based on this model agree qualitatively with experiment. 相似文献
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Wah Keat Lee Barry A. Wintner Ernest Fontes Paul A. Heiney Masashi Ohba John N. Haseltine Amos B. Smith 《Liquid crystals》1989,4(1):87-102
We have used X-ray diffraction and optical microscopy to study binary mixtures of 2,3,7,8,12,13-hexa-n-tetradecanoyloxy- and 2,3,7,8,12,13-hexa(4-n-undecyloxybenzoyloxy) truxenes. Our measurements confirm the existence of a reentrant isotropic phase, which is however always preceded by a mixed phase region rather than by a pure columnar phase. The nematic ND phase displays an anomalously negative thermal expansion coefficient. We speculate on mechanisms for reentrancy in discotic mesogens. 相似文献
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An orientational order parameter is proposed for the isotropic to smectic C*A phase transition in antiferroelectric liquid crystals. A phenomenological theory is developed to describe the direct isotropic to smectic-C*A phase transition on the basis of a free energy expansion. The free energy is written in terms of the coupled order parameters including the antipolar correlations. We present a detailed analysis of the different phases that can occur and analyze the question: under which conditions a direct isotropic to smectic-C*A phase transition is possible when compared to other phase transitions? The theoretical results are compared with experimental results. 相似文献
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Arvind K. Gathania 《Liquid crystals》2013,40(7):773-776
Critical behaviour of the order parameters has been investigated in the ferroelectric liquid crystal mixture ZLI‐3654 in a 7.5 µm thick planar cell. The temperature dependence of the primary (tilt angle) and secondary (spontaneous polarisation) order parameters is considered. The critical exponent (β) has been evaluated from the fitting of the temperature dependence of the experimental data for both tilt angle and spontaneous polarisation. Experimental results are compared with the predictions of the de Gennes and Landau models. 相似文献
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Both cholesteryl oleate (CO) and cholesteryl oleyl carbonate (COC) are thermotropic mesogens with a general cooling phase sequence: isotropic → cholesteric → smectic → crystal. They are almost identical with respect to molecular structure and the central location of molecular dipole. However, the orientation of the latter is axial for CO and transverse for COC. A eutectic mixture of these components shows a phase sequence like the above but involving an induced smectic-C* phase. We explain this discovery on the basis of computer simulation results involving rigid core-dipole-flexible tail model of a mesogen and argue in favor of a ferroelectric liquid crystal model of the induced phase. 相似文献
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Molinier V Kouwer PH Queneau Y Fitremann J Mackenzie G Goodby JW 《Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)》2003,(23):2860-2861
Investigations of the thermotropic liquid-crystalline properties of 6,6'-di-O-stearoylsucrose show, for the first time, that glycolipids can exhibit phase transitions within the smectic A phase. 相似文献
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We experimentally studied the nematic-isotropic phase transition of (a) binary mixtures consisting of nematic and racemic liquid crystals and (b) binary mixtures consisting of positive and negative dielectric liquid crystals. We observed that the phase transition temperature is very sensitive to the chemical structures of the constituent components. We also used Maier-Saupe theory to calculate the transition temperature of binary mixtures. By fitting the experimental data, we obtained the interaction coupling constant between the constituent components. 相似文献
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The crystal-nematic phase transition of a copolyester consisting of 20 mol% poly(ethylene terephthalate) and 80 mol% p-hydroxybenzoic acid (PHB) was characterized by depression of the crystal-nematic transition by the addition of a liquid crystal diluent. This copolyester contains blocks of crystalline PHB. Its transition behavior was compared with thatrandom copolyester with diluent of the same composition. From the extrapolated transition temperature depression data, the heat of transition per mole of p-oxybenzoate was calculated as about 1.3 kcal/mol, with an entropy of about 2 cal/deg mol. This assumes that only the p-oxybenzoate unit crystallized from the nematic state. The validity of the Flory-Huggins model for this transition point depression was confirmed graphically by comparison with two different thermotropic-liquid crystal polyesters. These results may represent the first reported crystal-nematic temperatures and heats generated by the dilution method for liquid crystal copolyesters of this type. 相似文献
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Jiang Xiaobao 《Liquid crystals》2013,40(8):1116-1120
By dividing the bulk melting entropy, a simple thermodynamic model without any adjustable parameter for the size-dependent melting transition temperature has been extended to interpret the melting and freezing transitions of liquid crystals (LCs) confined in nanopores. The results show that as the size of the nanopore decreases, the melting, clearing and freezing transition temperatures of LCs drop. The transition temperatures directly depend on the density of hydrogen bond at the interface between inner pore wall and LC molecules. The model predictions agree well with the corresponding experimental results of LCs p-azoxyanisole and 4-pentyl-4′-cyanobiphenyl confined in nanopores. 相似文献
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Ian R. Nemitz Kevin McEleney Cathleen M. Crudden Robert P. Lemieux Rolfe G. Petschek 《Liquid crystals》2016,43(4):497-504
Chiral periodic mesoporous organosilica (PMO) materials have been shown to deracemise a configurationally achiral, but conformationally racemic liquid crystal in which the PMO is embedded. In particular, application of an electric field E in the liquid crystal’s smectic-A phase results in a rotation of the liquid-crystal director by an angle proportional to E, which is detected optically – this is the so-called ‘electroclinic’ effect. Here we present results from electroclinic measurements as a function of frequency and temperature, which allow us to distinguish the component of optical signal that arises from liquid-crystal chirality induced within the PMO’s chiral pores from that induced just outside the silica colloids. Our central result is that the overwhelming source of our electrooptic signal emanates from outside the PMO, and that the contribution from the liquid crystal embedded in the chiral pores is much smaller and below the noise level. 相似文献
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Sueyoshi R Tada K Goto M Tamai N Matsuki H Kaneshina S 《Colloids and surfaces. B, Biointerfaces》2006,50(1):85-88
The phase transition between the lamellar liquid crystal (Lalpha) phase and the inverted hexagonal (H(II)) phase of dioleoylphosphatidylethanolamine (DOPE) in aqueous NaCl solutions was observed by means of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) under ambient pressure and light-transmittance technique under high pressure. The pressure dependence of the transition temperature (dT/dp) and the thermodynamic quantities for the Lalpha/H(II) transition were compared with those of another phase transition found in the DOPE bilayer membrane, which is the transition from the lamellar crystal (Lc) phase to the Lalpha phase. The dT/dp value of the Lalpha/H(II) transition was about 3.5 times as large as that of the Lc/Lalpha transition while the thermodynamic quantities were significantly smaller than those of the latter to the contrary. Comparing the enthalpy and volume behavior of the Lalpha/H(II) transition with that of the Lc/Lalpha transition, we concluded that the Lalpha/H(II) transition can be regarded as the volume-controlled transition for the reconstruction of molecular packing. 相似文献
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A mixture of tetrabutylphosphonium N-trifluoromethanesulfonyl leucine and water showed a reversible change between a homogeneous phase and separated liquid-liquid phase by bubbling CO(2) gas or N(2) gas at atmospheric pressure as well as a small temperature change. 相似文献
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Here, we demonstrate excellent liquid crystal (LC) vertical alignment without using an alignment layer printing process by introducing octadecyltrichlorosilane (OTS) into the LC mixture. Further, we investigated the alignment mechanism by analysing the surfaces of the substrates. The optimum concentration of OTS was found to be about 0.03 wt%, which is 1/100 of that in the previously reported polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS)–LC system. Moreover, the OTS–LC system exhibited a more stable LC alignment compared with the POSS–LC system. These differences may arise from the different strengths of surface–dopant interactions; that is, the covalent bond in the OTS–LC system and the van der Waals interactions in the POSS–LC system. We also demonstrated that the method can be used in a capillary tube, which may serve as a new method facilitating the application of LCs with curved surfaces. 相似文献
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Electro-optical and polarization current measurements on 1,3-phenylene-bis[4-(3-fluoro-4-decyloxyphenyliminomethyl) benzoate] (3F-10-O-PIMB) revealed a second order phase transition between two antiferroelectric 'smectic banana' phases. The observations show that the switching between the ferroelectric states in the higher temperature (HT) phase requires higher thresholds than in the lower temperature (LT) phase. It is hypothesized that the HT phase has a lower (triclinic, C 1 ) symmetry, than that of the LT phase (monoclinic, C 2 ). It is also shown that electric fields can induce transitions between different 'smectic banana' phases. 相似文献