INTEMA 05428
INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGIA DE MATERIALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Thermodynamic Modelling of Phase Equilibrium in Nanoparticles Nematic Liquid Crystals Composites.
Autor/es:
EZEQUIEL R. SOULÉ; LINDA REVEN; ALEJANDRO D. REY
Revista:
MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS - (Print)
Editorial:
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Referencias:
Año: 2012 vol. 553 p. 118 - 126
ISSN:
1542-1406
Resumen:
In this work, a theoretical study of phase equilibrium in mixtures of a calamitic nematic liquid crystal and hard spherical nanoparticles is presented. A mean-field thermodynamic model is used, where the interactions are considered to be proportional to the number of contacts, which in turn are proportional to the areas and area fractions of each component. It is shown that, as the radius of the particle is increased, the effect of the particles on the isotropic-nematic transition is less pronounced, and that for large radius the miscibility increases as the particle radius increases.
