External field induced tricritical phenomenon in the isotropic-nematic phase transition of hard non-spherical particle systems

Molecular Physics

Volumn 98, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 911-915

  Varga, Szabolcs ^a   Kronome, Gergely ^a   Szalai, Istvan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; FREE ENERGY; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ANISOTROPIC POLARIZABILITY; ISOTROPIC NEMATIC PHASE TRANSITION; NONSPHERICAL PARTICLE SYSTEMS; UNIAXIAL PLANAR;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 0034691894     PISSN: 00268976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00268970050032765     Document Type: Article

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