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Raman Scattering Study Of Phase Biaxiality In A Thermotropic Bent-Core Nematic Liquid Crystal, Min Sang Park, Beom-Kin Yoon, Jung Ok Park, Veena Prasad, Satyendra Kumar, Mohan Srinivasarao
Raman Scattering Study Of Phase Biaxiality In A Thermotropic Bent-Core Nematic Liquid Crystal, Min Sang Park, Beom-Kin Yoon, Jung Ok Park, Veena Prasad, Satyendra Kumar, Mohan Srinivasarao
Satyendra Kumar
Polarized Raman spectroscopy was used to investigate the development of orientational order and the degree of phase biaxiality in a bent-core mesogenic system. The values of the uniaxial order parameters ⟨P200⟩ and ⟨P400⟩, and biaxial order parameters ⟨P220⟩, ⟨P420⟩, and ⟨P440⟩, and their evolution with temperature were determined. The temperature dependence of almost all order parameters reveals a second order transition from the uniaxial to biaxial nematic phase with ⟨P220⟩ increasing to ∼0.22 before a first order transition to the smectic-C phase, upon cooling.
One Order Parameter Tensor Mean Field Theory For Biaxial Liquid Crystals, Xiaoyu Zheng, Peter Palffy-Muhoray
One Order Parameter Tensor Mean Field Theory For Biaxial Liquid Crystals, Xiaoyu Zheng, Peter Palffy-Muhoray
Xiaoyu Zheng
In this paper, we present a simple one tensor mean field model of biaxial nematic liquid crystals. The salient feature of our approach is that material parameters appear explicitly in the order parameter tensor. We construct the free energy from a mean field potential based on anisotropic dispersion interactions, identify the order parameter tensor and its elements, and obtain self-consistent equations, which are then solved numerically. The results are illustrated in a 3D ternary phase diagram. The phase behavior can be simply related to molecular parameters. The results may be useful for designing molecules that show a thermotropic biaxial phase.
Biaxial Nematic Phase In Bent-Core Thermotropic Mesogens, Bharat R. Acharya, Andrew Primak, Satyendra Kumar
Biaxial Nematic Phase In Bent-Core Thermotropic Mesogens, Bharat R. Acharya, Andrew Primak, Satyendra Kumar
Satyendra Kumar
A biaxial nematic phase had been predicted with D2h symmetry, wherein the mesogen’s long and short transverse axes are simultaneously aligned along the two orthogonal, primary and secondary directors, n and m, respectively. The unique low-angle x-ray diffraction patterns in the nematic phases exhibited by three rigid bent-core mesogens clearly reveal their biaxiality. The results of x-ray diffraction can be readily reproduced by ab initio calculations that explicitly include the bent-core shape in the form factor and assume short-range positional correlations.