Showing papers by "Shri Singh published in 1988"
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors applied a statistical mechanical theory to study the equilibrium properties of discotic nematic liquid crystals and reported the calculation of thermodynamic properties for a model system composed of molecules interacting through angle-dependent pair potentials which can be broken up into rapidly varying short-ranged repulsions and weak long-range attractions.
Abstract: A statistical mechanical theory is applied to study the equilibrium properties of discotic nematic liquid crystals. We report the calculation of thermodynamic properties for a model system composed of molecules interacting through angle-dependent pair potentials which can be broken up into rapidly varying short-ranged repulsions and weak long-range attractions. The repulsive interaction is represented by a repulsion between hard oblate ellipsoids of revolution and is a short-range, rapidly-varying, potential. The influence of attractive potentials, represented by dispersion and quadrupole interactions on a variety of thermodynamic properties is analysed. It is found that the thermodynamic properties for the discotic nematic-isotropic transition are highly sensitive to the form of effective one-body orientational perturbation potential. The discontinuity in the transition properties is more pronounced in the case of quadrupole interaction than for anisotropic dispersion interaction. A remarkable s...
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