Structure of a liquid crystalline fluid around a macroparticle: Density functional theory study

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2006-04-10

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0604244v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

10 pages, 6 figues. Submitted to Phys. Rev. E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.74.021701

The structure of a molecular liquid, in both the nematic liquid crystalline and isotropic phases, around a cylindrical macroparticle, is studied using density functional theory. In the nematic phase the structure of the fluid is highly anisotropic with respect to the director, in agreement with results from simulation and phenomenological theories. On going into the isotropic phase the structure becomes rotationally invariant around the macroparticle with an oriented layer at the surface.

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