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Phase transitions in liquid crystals
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A comprehensive overview of phase transition studies can be found in this article, where the authors identify the essential key concepts and points of difficulty associated with the study of phase transitions and discuss the most widely used experimental techniques for measuring these transition properties.About:
This article is published in Physics Reports.The article was published on 2000-02-01. It has received 308 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Phase transition & Liquid crystal.read more
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Towards in silico liquid crystals. Realistic transition temperatures and physical properties for n-cyanobiphenyls via molecular dynamics simulations.
TL;DR: By using the united-atom force field developed herein, it is shown that the experimental isotropic-nematic transition temperatures are reproduced within 4 K, allowing a molecular-level interpretation of the odd-even effect along the series.
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Structure And Thermodynamics of Weakly Segregated Rod-Coil Block Copolymers
TL;DR: In this paper, the selfassembly of a series of monodisperse rod−coil block copolymers is studied in the weak segregation limit, and the order to microphase disorder transition (ODT) and nematic isotropic (NI) transition are experimentally investigated.
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Mechanochromic luminescence of halide-substituted difluoroboron β-diketonate dyes
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of halide substituents on mechanochromic luminescence quenching were investigated for a series of difluoroboron β-diketonate (BF2bdk) compounds.
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Universalization of the Phase Diagram for a Model Rod-Coil Diblock Copolymer
TL;DR: In this paper, the Flory−Huggins interaction is measured for a model rod-coil block copolymer system, poly(alkoxyphenylenevinylene-b-isoprene), by fitting the interfacial segregation of block copolerant to a homopolymer interface and by using the random phase approximation (RPA) for block co-olymers.
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Insight into entropy
TL;DR: In this article, the qualitative character of entropy has been investigated and several examples from statistical mechanics (including liquid crystal reentrant phases, two different lattice gas models, and the game of poker) demonstrate facets of this difficult question and point toward an answer.
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New, thermodynamically consistent, integral equation for simple fluids
Forrest J. Rogers,David Young +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a new integral equation in which the hypernetted-chain and Percus-Yevick approximations are "mixed" as a function of interparticle separation is described.
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Side Chain Liquid Crystal Polymers
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Nematic-Liquid-Crystal Order—A Monte Carlo Calculation
P. A. Lebwohl,G. Lasher +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the first-order phase transition of a simple-cubic lattice with periodic boundary conditions and found that the lattice undergoes a first order phase transition with a spontaneous order of 0.04$ at the transition.
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Phase Transition in a Lattice Model of Superconductivity
TL;DR: In this paper, Monte Carlo data and duality arguments are applied to a lattice model to show that a three-dimensional type-II superconductor should have a transition asymptotically equivalent to that of a superfluid with reversed temperature axis, and not a first-order transition.