211
Views
3
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Landau theory-based estimates for viscosity coefficients of uniaxial and biaxial nematic liquid crystals

&
Pages 130-136 | Received 11 Sep 2012, Accepted 15 Oct 2012, Published online: 02 Nov 2012

References

  • de Gennes , PG and Prost , J. 1993 . The physics of liquid crystals , 2nd , Oxford : Clarendon .
  • Diogo , AC and Martins , AF. 1982 . Order parameter and temperature dependence of the hydrodynamic viscosities of nematic liquid crystals . J Physique , 43 Jan : 779 – 786 .
  • Saupe , A. 1981 . Elastic and flow properties of biaxial nematics . J Chem Phys , 75 Nov : 5118 – 5124 .
  • Yu , LJ and Saupe , A. 1980 . Observation of a biaxial nematic phase in potassium laurate-1-decanol–water mixtures . Phys Rev Lett , 45 Sep : 1000 – 1003 .
  • Fialkowski , M. 1988 . Viscous properties of nematic liquid crystals composed of biaxial molecules . Phys Rev E: Stat Nonlinear Soft Matter Phys , 58 Aug : 1955 – 1966 .
  • Osipov , MA and Sonnet , AM. 2011 . Order parameter dependence of the viscosity coefficients of a biaxial nematic liquid crystal . Eur Phys J E: Soft Matter Biol Phys , 34 Oct : 109 – 117 .
  • Gramsbergen , EF , Longa , L and de Jeu , WH. 1986 . Landau theory of the nematic–isotropic phase transition . Phys Rep , 135 Apr : 195 – 257 .
  • Berreman , DW and Meiboom , S. 1984 . Tensor representation of Oseen–Frank strain energy in uniaxial cholesterics . Phys Rev A: At Mol Opt Phys , 30 Oct : 1955 – 1959 .
  • Allender , DW. Theoretical estimates for elastic properties of biaxial nematics . Paper presented at: 5th International Meeting on Information Display (IMID’05) . July 20–23 2005 , Seoul , South Korea. Vol. 1 , pp. 195 – 198 . Digest of technical papers .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.