A Mean Field Model for the Phase Diagram of a Discotic Liquid Crystalline System
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Incorporating Nonlinear Optics
- Vol. 154 (1) , 119-125
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00268948808078727
Abstract
In an earlier work the present authors extended the variational method of Lee et al. for rod-like molecules to obtain the phase diagram of a discotic liquid crystal system. In the present work, the phase diagram of a discotic system is reproduced in a single particle potential model. It is seen that the single particle potential approach reproduces results very similar to those of the variational method but with considerable ease in computation. The equivalence of the two approaches is discussed.Keywords
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