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Advances in generalised van der Waals approaches for the isotropic–nematic fluid phase equilibria of thermotropic liquid crystals–an algebraic equation of state for attractive anisotropic particles with the Onsager trial function

Mario Franco-Melgar Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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Andrew J. Haslam Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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George Jackson Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 2329-2358 | Received 14 Aug 2009, Accepted 16 Sep 2009, Published online: 30 Oct 2009

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Carlos Avendaño, George Jackson & Henricus H. Wensink. (2018) Nanorings in planar confinement: the role of repulsive surfaces on the formation of lacuna smectics. Molecular Physics 116:21-22, pages 2901-2910.
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G. Rickayzen & D. M. Heyes. (2017) Isotropic-nematic phase transition of uniaxial variable softness prolate and oblate ellipsoids. The Journal of Chemical Physics 146:16.
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Liang Wu, George Jackson & Erich Müller. (2013) Liquid Crystal Phase Behaviour of Attractive Disc-Like Particles. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 14:8, pages 16414-16442.
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Thijs van Westen, Bernardo Oyarzún, Thijs J. H. Vlugt & Joachim Gross. (2013) The isotropic-nematic phase transition of tangent hard-sphere chain fluids—Pure components. The Journal of Chemical Physics 139:3.
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Tongyang Zhao & Xiaogong Wang. (2013) Solvent effect on phase transition of lyotropic rigid-chain liquid crystal polymer studied by dissipative particle dynamics. The Journal of Chemical Physics 138:2.
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Frances E. Pereira, George Jackson, Amparo Galindo & Claire S. Adjiman. (2010) A duality-based optimisation approach for the reliable solution of (P, T) phase equilibrium in volume-composition space. Fluid Phase Equilibria 299:1, pages 1-23.
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Bryan Ringstrand & Piotr Kaszynski. (2010) How much can an electric dipole stabilize a nematic phase? Polar and non-polar isosteric derivatives of [closo-1-CB9H10]− and [closo-1,10-C2B8H10]. Journal of Materials Chemistry 20:43, pages 9613.
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