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Kinetics Of Phase Transition In An Anticlinic Liquid Crystal Induced By A Uniform Temperature Field: Growth In One Dimension, X. Y. Wang, Jian-Feng Li, Eliezer Gurarie, S. Fan, Thein Kyu, S. S. Keast, Charles Rosenblatt
Kinetics Of Phase Transition In An Anticlinic Liquid Crystal Induced By A Uniform Temperature Field: Growth In One Dimension, X. Y. Wang, Jian-Feng Li, Eliezer Gurarie, S. Fan, Thein Kyu, S. S. Keast, Charles Rosenblatt
College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering
It is experimentally demonstrated that a transition from a synclinic to an anticlinic liquid crystal phase occurs via stable domain wall propagation after quenching in a uniform temperature field. Such a one-dimensional growth may be explained in terms of a nonlinear diffusion equation. The experiment provides the first example of free, one-dimensional growth in a system subjected to a pure and uniform temperature field.
Phase Equilibria Of A Nematic And Smectic-A Mixture, Hao-Wen Chiu, Thein Kyu
Phase Equilibria Of A Nematic And Smectic-A Mixture, Hao-Wen Chiu, Thein Kyu
College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering
A phase diagram of a mixture consisting of nematic and smectic liquid crystals has been calculated self-consistently by combining Flory-Huggins (FH) theory for isotropic mixing and Maier-Saupe-McMillan (MSM) theory for smectic-A ordering. However, the MSM theory can be deduced to the original Maier-Saupe (MS) theory for nematic ordering. To describe the phase transitions involving induced smectic phase and nematic + smectic equilibrium, two nematic and two smectic order parameters for the nematic/smectic mixtures have been coupled through the normalized partition function and the orientation distribution function. Self-consistent numerical solution has been sought in establishing nematic/smectic phase diagrams involving (i) phase …