Induced orientational molecular ordering in nematic liquid crystals with magnetic nanoparticles

Abstract

Magneto-induced molecular orientational transitions in nematic liquid crystals doped by ferromagnetic nanoparticles have studied. On the basis of a microscopic approach of tensor operators it is sequentially considered the influence of the ferromagnetic dopes on the sensitivity of the orientational structure and the optical activity of the nematic liquid crystals.

Keywords:

• Nematic liquid crystals
• orientational ordering tensors
• molecular dynamics
• magnetic threshold fields
• magneto-optic effect

Acknowledgment

This work is part of a project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 778308.