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Effect of elastic constants of liquid crystals in their electro-optical properties

Z. Parang

Department of Science, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran

E-mail Address: zparang@yahoo.com

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T. Ghaffary

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1922-1439

Department of Science, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran

E-mail Address: ghaffary@iaushiraz.ac.ir

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M. M. Gharahbeigi

Department of Science, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran

E-mail Address: mehdi.gharahbeigi@gmail.com

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219887817501638Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

Recently following the success of the density functional theory (DFT) in obtaining the structure and thermodynamics of homogeneous and inhomogeneous classical systems such as simple fluids, dipolar fluid and binary hard spheres, this theory was also applied to obtain the density profile of a molecular fluid in between hard planar walls by Kalpaxis and Rickayzen. In the theory of molecular fluids, the direct correlation function (DCF) can be used to calculate the equation of state, free energy, phase transition, elastic constants, etc. It is well known that the hard core molecular models play an important role in understanding complex liquids such as liquid crystals. In this paper, a classical fluid of nonspherical molecules is studied. The required homogeneous (DCF) is obtained by solving Orenstein–Zernike (OZ) integral equation numerically. Some of the molecules in the liquid crystals have a sphere shape and this kind of molecular fluid is considered here. The DCF sphere of the molecular fluid is calculated and it will be shown that the results are in good agreement with the pervious works and the results of computer simulation. Finally the electro-optical properties of ellipsoid liquid crystal using DCF of these molecules are calculated.

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AMSC: 76A15, 74E15, 74N05

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