Ordering transitions, biaxiality, and demixing in the symmetric binary mixture of rod and plate molecules described with the Onsager theory

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2002, Pages

  Varga, Szabolcs ^a   Galindo, Amparo ^a   Jackson, George ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ENTROPY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHASE SEPARATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

DEMIXING; NEMATIC PHASE; PHASE BEHAVIOR; VOLUME INTERACTION;

BINARY MIXTURES;

EID: 41349093509     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.66.011707     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. L. Onsager, Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 51, 627 (1949).
2. J. Vieillard-Baron, J. Chem. Phys. 56, 4729 (1972).
3. D. Frenkel, J. Phys. Chem. 92, 3280 (1988);
4. D. Frenkel, H. N. W. Lekkerkerker, and A. Stroobants, Nature (London) 332, 822 (1988).
5. R. Eppenga and D. Frenkel, Mol. Phys. 52, 1303 (1984).
6. P. G. de Gennes, The Physics of Liquid Crystals, 2nd ed. (Clarendon, Oxford, UK, 1996).
7. P. J. Camp and M. P. Allen, J. Chem. Phys. 106, 6681 (1997).
8. J. A. C. Veerman and D. Frenkel, Phys. Rev. A 45, 5632 (1992).
9. R. Blaak, D. Frenkel, and B. M. Mulder, J. Chem. Phys. 110, 11 652 (1999).
10. R. Alben, J. Chem. Phys. 59, 4299 (1973).
11. R. van Roij and B. M. Mulder, J. Phys. II 4, 1763 (1994).
12. E. Sokolova and A. Vlasov, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 9, 4089 (1997).
13. E. P. Sokolova, I. K. Tokhadze, and N. A. Smirnova, Russ. J. Phys. Chem. 75, 1319 (2001).
14. P. Palffy-Muhoray, J. R. de Bruyn, and D. A. Dunmur, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 127, 301 (1985).
15. P. Palffy-Muhoray, J. R. de Bruyn, and D. A. Dunmur, J. Chem. Phys. 82, 5294 (1985).
16. S. R. Sharma, P. Palffy-Muhoray, B. Bergersen, and D. A. Dunmur, Phys. Rev. A 32, 3752 (1985).
17. T. M. Birshtein, B. I. Kogelov, and V. A. Pruamitsyn, Polym. Sci. U.S.S.R. 30, 316 (1988).
18. G. J. Vroege and H. N. W. Lekkerkerker, J. Phys. Chem. 97, 3601 (1993).
19. S. Varga and I. Szalai, PCCP 2, 1955 (2000).
20. R. van Roij, B. M. Mulder, and M. Dijkstra, Physica A 261, 347 (1998).
21. R. P. Sear and B. M. Mulder, J. Chem. Phys. 105, 7727 (1996).
22. R. P. Sear and G. Jackson, J. Chem. Phys. 103, 8684 (1995).
23. P. C. Hemmer, Mol. Phys. 96, 1153 (1999).
24. P. C. Hemmer, J. Stat. Phys. 100, 3 (2000).
25. Z. Y. Chen and J. M. Deutch, J. Chem. Phys. 80, 2151 (1984).
26. A. Stroobants and H. N. W. Lekkerkerker, J. Phys. Chem. 88, 3669 (1984).
27. A. G. Vanakaras and D. J. Photinos, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 299, 65 (1997).
28. A. G. Vanakaras, S. C. McGrother, G. Jackson, and D. J. Photinos, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 323, 199 (1998).
29. A. G. Vanakaras, A. F. Terzis, and D. J. Photinos, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 362, 67 (2000).
30. E. P. Sokolova, N. A. Smirnova, and I. K. Tokhadze, Russ. J. Phys. Chem. 74, S357 (2000).
31. R. E. Goozner and M. M. Labes, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 56, 75 (1979).
32. F. Hardouin, G. Sigaud, M. F. Achard, and H. Gasparaux, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 58, 155 (1979).
33. L. J. Yu and A. Saupe, Phys. Rev. Lett. 45, 1000 (1980).
34. F. M. van der Kooij and H. N. W. Lekkerkerker, Langmuir 16, 10144 (2000).
35. F. M. van der Krooij and H. N. W. Lekkerkerker, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 781 (2000).
36. H. H. Wensink, G. J. Vroege, and H. N. W. Lekkerkerker, J. Chem. Phys. 115, 7319 (2001).
37. J. D. Parsons, Phys. Rev. A 19, 1225 (1979).
38. S. D. Lee, J. Chem. Phys. 87, 4972 (1987).
39. P. J. Camp and M. P. Allen, Physica A 229, 410 (1996).
40. P. J. Camp, M. P. Allen, P. G. Bolhuis, and D. Frenkel, J. Chem. Phys. 106, 9270 (1997).
41. A. Galindo, G. Jackson, and D. J. Photinos, Chem. Phys. Lett. 325, 631 (2000).
42. A. Chrzanowska, Phys. Rev. E 58, 3229 (1998).
43. R. Zwanzig, J. Chem. Phys. 39, 1714 (1963).
44. G. J. Vroege and H. N. W. Lekkerkerker, Rep. Prog. Phys. 55, 1241 (1992).
45. J. S. Rowlinson and F. L. Swinton, Liquids and Liquid Mixtures, 3rd ed. (Butterworth Scientific, London, 1982).
46. C. G. Gray and K. E. Gubbins, Theory of Molecular Liquids (Clarendon, Oxford, 1984), Vol. 1, Fundamentals.
47. S. D. P. Flapper and G. Vertogen, Phys. Rev. A 24, 2089 (1981).
48. W. H. Press, B. P. Flannery, S. A. Teukolsky, and W. T. Vetterling, Numerical Recipes in Fortran, 1st ed. (Cambridge University Press, London, 1986).
49. S. Varga, A. Galindo, and G. Jackson (unpublished).
50. R. F. Kayser and H. J. Ravaché, Phys. Rev. A 17, 2067 (1978).
51. B. M. Mulder, Phys. Rev. A 39, 360 (1989).
52. S. Varga, A. Galindo, and G. Jackson (unpublished).