Anchoring Energy or Surface Melting in Nematic Liquid Crystals?
- 1 July 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals
- Vol. 203 (1) , 33-44
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00268949108046044
Abstract
The influence of the spatial variation of the scalar order parameter on the anchoring energy is analysed. It is shown that if the nematic average orientation is forced to change too rapidly, a surface melting is expected. Furthermore, by considering two typical situations in which the surface scalar parameter is different or equal to the bulk one, the renormalization of the anchoring energy is estimated.Keywords
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