Solution of the excluded volume problem for biaxial particles |
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| Authors: | B. M. Mulder |
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| Affiliation: | Institute for Theoretical Physics, Princetonplein 5, P.O. Box 80.006, 3508 , Utrecht, TA, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | Abstract We report the solution of the excluded volume problem for a pair of biaxial hard molecules; namely, sphero-platelets. As an application of this result we study the isotropic to nematic liquid crystal transition for a fluid composed of these particles in the Onsager limit (length δ breadth or width). We show that the range of stability of the isotropic phase decreases with increasing particle biaxiality. |
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