Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-14-2006

Abstract

We propose a new theoretical scheme for the binary phase diagrams of crystal-liquid crystal mixtures by a combination of a phase field model of solidification, the Flory-Huggins theory for liquid-liquid mixing and Maier-Saupe-McMillan (FH-MSM) model for nematic and smectic liquid crystal orderings. The phase field theory describes the crystal phase transition of anisotropic organic crystal and/or side chain liquid crystalline polymer crystals while the FH-MSM model explains isotropic, nematic and smectic-A phase transitions. Self-consistent calculations reveal several possible phase diagram topologies of the binary crystal-liquid crystal mixtures. The calculated phase diagrams were found to accord well to the reported experimental results. (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.

Publication Title

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volume

124

Issue

22

Required Publisher's Statement

Copyright 2006 American Institute of Physics. The original published version of this article may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2200688.

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