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Phase behavior of the thermotropic melt of asymmetric V-shaped moleculesстатья
Статья опубликована в высокорейтинговом журнале
Статья опубликована в журнале из списка Web of Science и/или Scopus- Авторы: Aliev M.A., Kuzminyh N.Y., Ugolkova E.A.
- Журнал: Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
- Том: 95
- Номер: 4
- Год издания: 2017
- Издательство: American Physical Society
- Местоположение издательства: United States
- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.95.042703
- Аннотация: The phase behavior of the monodisperse melt of V-shaped molecules composed of two rigid segments of different lengths joined at their ends at an external angle α has been examined within the Landau-de Gennes approach. Each rigid segment consists of a sequence of monomer units; the anisotropic interactions in the system are assumed to be of the Maier-Saupe form. The coefficients of the Landau-de Gennes free-energy expansion have been found from a microscopic model of V-shaped molecule. A single Landau point at which the system undergoes direct continuous transition from isotropic to biaxial nematic phase is found for asymmetry parameter φ=1/3 or φ=2/3, where φ is the number fraction of monomer units in one of the segments. Two Landau points are found in a range 1/3<φ<2/3. Only isotropic and nematic states are found to be stable for 0≤φ<1/3 and 2/3<φ≤1. Regions of stability of isotropic, prolate uniaxial, and biaxial nematic phases are found for φ=1/3 and φ=2/3. In addition, a stable oblate uniaxial phase is revealed if asymmetry parameter falls in the range 1/3<φ<2/3. The region of stability of the biaxial nematic phase becomes smaller as parameter φ increases from 1/3 to 1/2 (or decreases from 2/3 to 1/2). Coefficients of the gradient terms have been found; for certain values of asymmetry parameter these coefficients can become negative in some ranges of angles.
- Добавил в систему: Кузьминых Николай Юрьевич