Paranematic-to-nematic ordering of a binary mixture of rodlike liquid crystals confined in cylindrical nanochannels
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Paranematic-to-nematic ordering of a binary mixture of rodlike liquid crystals confined in cylindrical nanochannels.
We explore the optical birefringence of the nematic binary mixtures 6CB_{1-x}7CB_{x} (0 ≤ x ≤ 1) embedded into parallel-aligned nanochannels of mesoporous alumina and silica membranes for channel radii of 3.4 ≤ R ≤ 21.0 nm. The results are compared with the bulk behavior and analyzed with a Landau-de Gennes model. Depending on the channel radius the nematic ordering in the cylindrical nanochann...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1539-3755,1550-2376
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.89.062501