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UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
FACULTY OF PHYSICS Guest
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Conference: Bucharest University Faculty of Physics 2015 Meeting
Section: Polymer Physics
Title:
Binary mixtures composed of liquid crystals and carbon nanotubes: II. Effect of an attractive anisotropic mean field acting on the carbon nanotubes
Authors:
Vlad POPA-NITA (1)
Affiliation:
1) Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, P. O. Box MG-11, Bucharest 077125, Romania
E-mail
v.popanita@gmail.com
Keywords:
liquid crystal, carbon nanotubes, attraction mean field
Abstract:
The mesoscopic phenomenological model to describe the liquid crystal – carbon nanotubes mixture already published in a previous paper [1] is extended to include the attractive interactions. These interactions are modeled by a spatially uniform mean field potential. The influence of the attraction on the phase diagram is theoretically analized for different values of temperature, volume fraction of carbon nanotubes component, nematic carbon nanotubes – nematic liquid crystal coupling strength and attractive mean field strength.
References:
1. P. van de Schoot, V. Popa-Nita and S. Kralj, J. Phys. Chem. B112, 4512 (2008)
Acknowledgement:
The author acknowledge support from the Romanian National Project ID-PCE-2011/3/1007 (No.83).
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