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Phase Transitions
A Multinational Journal
Volume 64, 1998 - Issue 4
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A mean-field model for the phase diagram of liquid crystals

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Pages 203-214 | Received 21 Mar 1997, Accepted 07 Jul 1997, Published online: 01 Sep 2006
 

Abstract

In this study we have developed a mean-field model to obtain the phase diagram for a mixture of liquid crystals. Our mean-field model gives the phase diagram of the nematic, smectic A and smectic C phases near the NAC point. We have fitted our model to the experimentally observed data. From this fitting, we conclude that our mean-field model explains correctly the experimentally observed behavior of a mixed liquid crystalline system near the NAC point.

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