Density functional theory for dense nematic liquid crystals with steric interactions
The celebrated work of Onsager on hard particle systems, based on the truncated second order virial expansion, is valid at relatively low volume fractions for large aspect ratio particles. While it predicts the isotropic-nematic phase transition, it does not provide a realistic equation of state in...
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American Physical Society
2017
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